FORMATION OF SOCIALLY APPROVED RELATIONSHIPS OF CHILDREN OF SENIOR PRESCHOOL AGE AS AN INDICATOR OF THEIR SOCIAL AND CIVIC COMPETENCE
Authors:   Pedagogical Institute of Borys Hrinchenko Kyiv University, Ukrainе, Ponomarenko Tetiana , Shynkar Tetiana ,   Pedagogical Institute of Borys Hrinchenko Kyiv University, Ukrainе
Published: August 2022

The study outlines the urgency of the problem of forming socially approved relationships of senior preschool children as an indicator of their social and civic competence. The importance of personality-oriented approach in the process of formation of the studied relations on the basis of complex functioning of cognitive, behavioral, emotional-motivational processes is determined. The purpose, tasks of the research and accordingly – logic of representation of the researched material are developed. The purpose of the study is to investigate the theoretical and methodological and normative and program principles of formation of socially approved relationships of senior preschool children as an indicator of their social and civic competence. Objectives of the study are to determine the urgency of the problem of forming socially approved relationships of senior preschool children as an indicator of their social and civic competence; to investigate the theoretical and methodological, normative and program principles of formation of socially approved relationships of children of senior preschool age as an indicator of their social and civic competence; to study the features of the pedagogical influence of educators on the relationships of senior preschool children in different types of their activities; to study the peculiarities of the relations of older preschool children in different types of their life activities; to highlight the features of the formation of socially approved relationships of senior preschool children as an indicator of their social and civic competence.The theoretical and methodological, normative and program principles of the researched problem are determined in the research. A number of scientific works related to the study of the problem of forming socially approved relationships are outlined. According to the State Standard of Preschool Education [1] and the educational program «Child» [2] an updated essence of knowledge, skills, emotional and value attitude of the child to the social environment is characterised and together they form the basis of social and civic competence of preschool children. On the basis of the analysis of theoretical, scientific and methodical sources a number of emotionally mediated traditional and innovative forms and methods of formation of moral knowledge and activity experience of preschool children are outlined.The peculiarities of experimental and pedagogical activity on formation of socially approved relationships of preschool children are characterized. Observations of the educators’ activity and the peculiarities of the relationship of senior preschool children, which are manifested in their direct actions, allowed at the stage of the statement experiment to confirm the urgency of the problem and determine the content and features of experimental and pedagogical activity on the basis of actualization of such pedagogical conditions: introduction of a complex of pedagogical traditional and innovative forms and methods in the educational activity of preschool educational institution; pedagogically expedient, personality-oriented, subject-subject, emotionally comfortable interaction of teachers with children; formation of socially approved relationships in the aggregate functioning of cognitive, behavioral, emotional and motivational processes.At the stage of the control experiment, positive changes in the ratio of positive and negative actions of senior preschool children in interaction with peers were recorded, which is due to the peculiarities of the introduced experimental and pedagogical activity. The features of the formation of socially approved relationships of senior preschool children need further research.