ПОЧАТКОВА ЕКОНОМІЧНА ОСВІТА – ВАЖЛИВА ЛАНКА ПІДГОТОВКИ ОСОБИСТОСТІ ДО ЖИТТЯ

Abstract

The article deals with the relevance of initial economic education in the system of general education of pupils, considers the directions of initial economic education, ways, methods and forms of studying the basic principles of the economy of junior pupils, an attention is paid to the problems of elementary economic education of schoolchildren.The primary economic education is one of the factors influencing the formation of the child’s personality and one’s relation to the material and spiritual values. The reality of the present requires that even the junior students know that such needs and limitations of their satisfaction, able to make informed (economically rational) choices, represent the purpose of money, understand what the budget of the family is, what is the price of the product and from what it depends on how wealth is created, how it can be ordered.An economic education at the junior school age, provided that effective pedagogical leadership is the basis for economic education in subsequent age periods. Obtained by students in the elementary school, economic knowledge and skills that will allow solving cognitive and practical tasks rationally, are the necessary basis for further development of economic education and upbringing of children at the following stages of study.It is important to develop the new methods and forms of economic education. As practice shows, the greatest opportunities of the economic education of junior pupils are collective forms of educational and work activities, where children enter into various relationships with each other, where there are relations of mutual dependence, mutual assistance, where there is a competition, that is, there are opportunities for manifestation of personality traits each member of the team, awareness of the subject in the process of activity.In the new conditions of social and economic development, the question of the formation of the economic culture of the younger generation becomes an important strategic problem of the educational system. We believe that currently there is not enough high-quality educational and methodical literature, in which the supply of economic material in terms of complexity, assimilation and methodological parameters corresponds to the psychological characteristics of the junior school age, and in content corresponds to modern requirements and provisions of economic science.