SPECIAL FEATURES OF MUSEUM PEDAGOGY AS AN INNOVATION ACTIVITY IN PRESCHOOL EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

Abstract

General trends in the development of Ukrainian society have highlighted the problem of pedagogical innovations in preschool education. Its development is based on national documents about innovation activities and guiding documents in education, particularly the Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine “On Amendments to the Regulations on the Procedure for Innovative Educational Activities”. Pedagogical innovations in preschool education institutions include the creation of museums and pedagogical activities in this specific educational environment. The General Provisions on the State Museum Policy are reflected in the Law of Ukraine “On Museums and Museum Affairs”. In general, the work of museums in our country, as it is aimed at preserving and interpreting the cultural heritage, promotes social adaptation and national identity, is a valuable factor in organizing leisure and educational work with children, is of great social and cultural importance. The study found that museum pedagogy in preschool education is a branch of pedagogical science and practical educational activities focused on teaching, education, development and transfer of cultural experience to preschool children in a museum environment. In the context of innovative processes in education, we consider museum pedagogy as a purposeful, systematic and consistent introduction of the original organization of the educational environment into the practice of preschool education institutions and, against this background, the use of innovative methods and techniques of pedagogical activity, covering a holistic educational process from determining its goal to obtaining the expected results. The influence of age and psychological features of preschoolers on the location of the museum and its separate expositions, ways of presentation of exhibits, definition of tasks of educational activity, on filling of the museum environment with concrete museum subjects is studied and characterized; the expediency of using game technologies in the process of working with preschoolers in the museum environment is substantiated; modeling of the structure of game technologies of museum work is carried out. Game technologies in museum pedagogy are based on activity and other scientific approaches. It is proved that the game is a structurally complex activity, so the use of game technology in the museum in preschool education is carried out by ensuring the full functioning of its expanded structure – motivational-target, content, procedural-operational, control-evaluation and performance components.