MANAGEMENT OF PRESCHOOL EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS
Authors: Kazachiner Olena , Boychuk Yuriy 
Published: February 2025

The modernization of education in Ukraine, the development of society on a humanistic and democratic basis dictates the need for new approaches to education management, requiring the head of a modern preschool educational institution to have a wide range of competencies in the implementation of various types of activities, knowledge and management skills in preschool education.
Reforming preschool education involves a radical restructuring of the management chain, its democratization, decentralization, and humanization, which require abandoning the authoritarian style of management, realizing the need to update the management functions of a modern preschool educational institution.
Improving the content, functions and operating conditions of a modern preschool education institution requires significant changes not only in the organizational and technological, but also in the psychological aspect of preschool education management. Ensuring a high level of psychological competence of management personnel is one of the essential levers for improving the management culture and optimizing the work of the institution. The head-manager must use the psychological reserves embedded in his personality in the management functions he performs. The dynamics of education development requires the ability to quickly adapt to changes, psychological education regarding the specifics of interaction with people, readiness for constant professional self-improvement.
The management of preschool education is “a specific type of intellectual activity that is implemented through a system of individual actions and influence on the object of management through scientifically based analysis, forecasting, planning, organization, control and evaluation of the quality of their functioning in order to achieve high efficiency of socially significant educational results”. The specified specificity is determined by the uniqueness of the subject, products, means and content of the professional activity of the head of the preschool education institution, the diversity and unity of the performed roles: administrator, methodologist, teacher-educator, psychologist, economist, etc.
Changes in the education system of Ukraine at the current stage require new approaches to the management of educational institutions. In particular, modern requirements for preschool education require high professional competence of all participants in the educational process and heads of preschool educational institutions in particular.
The professional competence of the head of a preschool educational institution is one of the factors influencing the adaptation of the institution to changing conditions, the possibilities and prospects of its development.
Heads of preschool educational institutions feel the need for knowledge on the problems of management, in particular, the development of a strategy for effective management of a preschool educational institution, the selection of a priority leadership style and the creation of a favorable psychological microclimate in the team, marketing of educational services, organization of control, cooperation with public sponsoring organizations, staff motivation.
The urgent need for professionally trained specialists was caused by the social processes taking place in our country. The humanization and democratization of society require the development of pedagogical skill and creativity of the heads of preschool educational institutions, increase the requirements for managerial culture, professionalism and competence level.
The analysis of scientific works and normative sources, the practice of assessing the state of formation of the management culture of the heads of preschool educational institutions show that it does not sufficiently meet modern requirements. Most heads of preschool educational institutions do not focus on identifying their own level of formation of management culture and its development.