Education of a valuable attitude to the Motherland in the context of the formation of the socio-cultural world of a preschool child
Authors: Shklyaeva H. , Brovata O. , Ilchenko O. 
Published: March 2024

Today's realities require the development of effective methods and systems for raising a valuable attitude to the Motherland in preschoolers. Ukrainian society united for the sake of peace, freedom, independence. Our people showed a high national consciousness, love for their native land, the Motherland, showed a high level of patriotism. National education, as an important factor in ensuring state policy regarding national and cultural values, should focus considerable attention on the education of national and patriotic feelings of the younger generation.

The analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature showed that fostering a valuable attitude to the Motherland is an urgent problem of modern education, since a democratic, independent state needs citizens with a strong national position, a sense of dignity and responsibility for the future of the native people. In this context, great importance is attached to folk pedagogy as a source of inexhaustible energy of folk wisdom, dignity, indomitability, strength.

Purpose. Theoretically substantiate a harmonious system of education of a valuable attitude to the Motherland in preschoolers by means of folk pedagogy.

The article discusses the topical issue of the importance of fostering a valuable attitude to the Motherland, which is determined by development trends and the realities of modern society. The author emphasizes the need to form worldview positions of a growing personality by means of folk pedagogy, active involvement of preschool children in the values of our society.

Methods. Literature analysis, analogy, induction and deduction, questionnaire.

Results. The theoretical aspects of fostering a valuable attitude to the Motherland are analyzed, the need to be based on national and universal values, traditions, culture, and the long-term heritage of folk pedagogy is emphasized.

The modern trends of preschool education, which are based on the implementation of innovative technologies and integrated approaches to the formation and development of the child's personality, are characterized, the importance of relying on national culture, the values of folk pedagogy and ethnopedagogy of the native people is emphasized.

According to the results of the theoretical analysis, we determined that folk pedagogy is the golden fund of scientific pedagogy, however, priority is given to folk education, which unites character, psychological features, mentality, traditional family culture.

Therefore, it is expedient to define the peculiarities of the education of a valuable attitude towards the Motherland in preschool children:

- the innate nature of national feelings, which is embedded in the child's psyche at the genetic level and is revealed subconsciously in each individual;

- national feelings are most clearly manifested and organically formed in preschool age.

Summarizing the results of scientific research on the education of a valuable attitude to the Motherland in the context of the formation of the socio-cultural world of a preschool child, it is appropriate to pay attention to the clarified conceptual meaning of the phenomenon under study. We define a valuable attitude to the Motherland as an active orientation of the individual to the national identity of the surrounding environment, which is due to the mastery of national and cultural values and the ability to implement national and cultural values in one's own activities and life.

Originality. The novelty of the work consists in substantiating the main trend of national-patriotic education, which is based on the formation of a valuable attitude of the individual to his people, their culture, traditions, and values. National identity is formed under the influence of purposeful education by means of folk pedagogy and is based on state and national values.

Conclusion. Value attitude is the subject's position in the system of social and cultural relations, which characterize the needs of the individual, his interests and ideals. Valuable attitude reveals the desire of the individual, it is always emotionally colored and has a meaningful connection of the individual with the objects of the surrounding world