Formation of the future preschool educators’ information culture

Abstract

The article deals with the problem regarding the formation of the future preschool educators’ information culture. It is substantiated that the information culture is a necessary condition for the modern education and subsequent successful professional activity of an educator in preschool educational institutions. It has been proved that under conditions of widespread use of modern information and communication technologies in the educational process of preschool educational institutions, the requirements to the future educators’ professional training are greatly expanded, and therefore the need to form the preschool educators’ information culture is originated from the real needs of renewing the preschool education system. The essence of the notion «preschool educator’s information culture» has been considered. It has been proved that the information culture of the future educator of a preschool educational institution is a qualitatively new form of the educator’s mental activity organization based on the use of information tools, which allows improving professional activities in preschool educational institutions. It has been substantiated that the definition of the «information culture» is multidimensional and diverse and is considered as a special type, as a subsystem of the preschool educator’s professional culture. The structure of the educator’s information culture is a synthesis of structural components (cognitive, axiological, behavioural) ensuring in their interaction the integrity and functioning of this type of culture. The necessity to develop the designated culture has been scientifically grounded and the formation peculiarities of the future preschool educators’ information culture have been revealed. The methodology aimed at forming future educators’ information culture while studying «Introduction to the specialty and basics of Pedagogy», «Preschool Pedagogy and the History of Preschool Pedagogy», «New information technologies in Preschool Education», «Computer technologies used in the work with children», professional methods, the bachelor curriculum in the specialty 012 Pre-school education has been proposed. The proficiency indicators of the educator’s information culture have been determined. The proficiency (development) levels of the future educators’ information culture have been specified: sufficient, intermediate, low. The tools and methods for diagnosing the proficiency levels of the future preschool educators’ information culture have been proposed. The results of diagnosing the proficiency levels of the future preschool educators’ information culture have been presented. The analysis of the experimental work shows the effectiveness of the developed methodology aimed at the formation of the future educators’ information culture according to all the selected components.