Abstract

In world modernization context modern challenges in education are formed. Federal normative legal documents reflect social demand to create conditions for development of an initiative person with socially active and civil position, capable of successful response to modern society requirements. Initial stages of solving this problem are in the senior preschool age, as synesthetic period of child's personality socialization and older preschoolers’ socio-cultural personality development. The federal state educational standard for preschool education directs teachers to create social situation for children’s initiative development through pedagogical conditions establishment in socio-cultural context. Analysis of theoretical methodological works and existing practices reveals volunteering pedagogical potential, tendency to involve older preschoolers into it. The paper examines theoretical, methodological foundations, psychological and pedagogical conditions of children's initiative development process on volunteer activities basis. Research purpose is to scientifically substantiate, develop and test psychological, pedagogical conditions for older preschool children’s initiative development. Research methods are comparative, complex system analysis of scientific research in pedagogical, sociological, philosophical works. Theoretical and methodological foundations and complex of psychological and pedagogical conditions for older preschool children’s initiative development based on volunteer activities are established as structural and functional model, "Preschool Volunteer" program and initiative developing technology for older preschool children. The author's concepts of “older preschool children initiative” and “volunteer activity of older preschool children” are formed. The socio-cultural context of initiative development involves volunteer practices with children. The research results can be used in lecture course preparation, professional programs for teachers and parents competence development in preschool educational organizations.

Highlights

  • An important problem of modern preschool education is the rethinking of the goals and objectives of the upbringing process, the search for new approaches that contribute to positive socialization and individualization of the personality, the development of the preschool

  • If previous studies were devoted to proving the possibility of developing initiative at a given age, there is a search for ways to develop this quality in preschool age, awareness of the necessary psychological and pedagogical conditions when organizing various types of activity

  • The research results can be used in the preparation for lectures courses of disciplines "Theory and methods of preschool education", "Technologies of educational work in a preschool educational organization, in retraining and advanced training programs for teaching staff, when writing teaching aids for teaching and upbringing of older preschool children

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Introduction

If previous studies were devoted to proving the possibility of developing initiative at a given age, there is a search for ways to develop this quality in preschool age, awareness of the necessary psychological and pedagogical conditions when organizing various types of activity. The study of solving of developing initiative in preschool age problem is presented in the scientific works of E. The solution to the issue of developing initiative in the aspect of organizing volunteer activities is associated with the works of L.V. Bolotova, I.N. Grigoriev, V.N. Melnikova, Y.V. Parshina, E.A. Romanenko, O.

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