Design of Individual Educational Trajectories for Preschool Children as a Factor in their Social and Personality Development

Abstract

The article reports the results of introducing individual educational trajectories for preschool children into the educational process of preschool education organizations as a factor of children’s social and personality development. In conjunction with collective forms of work, these trajectories allow expanding the range of children’s ideas about different emotional states promoting feelings of empathy and sympathy. The introduction of individual educational trajectories explicated in trajectory maps of social and personality development contributes to improved communicability with peers and adults and reduces conflict in this process. The number of conflict situations in children’s communication with others is lowered. The introduction of individual educational trajectories promotes the development of each child’s readiness for independent goal-setting, action planning, and communication with children and adults. Children learn to evaluate the actions of peers and adults establishing themselves as social subjects and accounting for the social norms and regulations adopted in society, i.e. the norms of the human community.