Socio-anthropological dimensions of the child’s life in the context of pre-school education

Abstract

The social-anthropological dimension of human life is considered in the inseparable unity of the process of activity and life strategies, which is associated with the process of its socialization, the formation of appropriate images of the future. Activity as a universal characterization of a person’s relation to the surrounding world reveals the essential features of a person as an active being aimed at the creative transformation of the external world and of himself. The activity has a subject-transformational character and is connected with the whole assignment, that is, the realization of the purpose and means of its achievement. The life activity of a person determines the process of organizing its life on the basis of social, psychological and biological activity and covers all the directions of its changes, the qualitative variety of these changes. The personality of a person is formed and developed as a result of the influence of various factors, objective and subjective, natural and social. The child acts as the subject of the formation of his own personality, that is, the formation of himself as a social being as a result of the influence of the environment on it and the system of upbringing. In the environment, the child is socialized. On the one hand, the individual assimilates social experience, values, norms, settings, peculiar to society, society and social groups to which he belongs, and on the other hand, he is actively involved in the system of social connections, whose enthusiasm acquires social experience. The article examines the problem of social and anthropological measurement of the child’s life in the context of pre-school education. On the basis of philosophical and scientific-pedagogical literature, the concept of «socialization», «activity» is highlighted. The hypothesis concerning the decisive role of social interaction in the development of thinking is considered. It is determined that from the early age children form ideas about such concepts as «friendship», «justice», «individuality», «authority». The age-old peculiarities of the children of the senior preschool age are substantiated, and it is proved that the most important need of the child is the desire to live with the people who surround it, the common life, to enter into direct contact with them, to constantly intersect with the adult world.