Bayanova L.F., Mustafin T.R. Cultural congruence of the preschooler in the normative situation and the possibility of its research

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Keywords: cultural congruence subjectivity subjective characteristics the normative situation frequency analysis factor analysis content analysis cultural maladjustment

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Bayanova L.F., Mustafin T.R. Cultural congruence of the preschooler in the normative situation and the possibility of its research // Preschool Education Today. 2013, Issue 4 - p. 70–75.

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Timur R. Mustafin
Postgraduate Student of Chair of Applied Psychology of Kazan Federal University (Kazan, Russia)

Larisa F. Bayanova
Doctor of Psychology, Senior Research Fellow, Federal Scientific Center for Psychological and Interdisciplinary Research, Moscow, Russian Federation

Abstract

The key actors in the normative interaction situations are a child and an adult. It is an adult, who is broadcasting rules to the child, and who can evaluate the degree of congruence of the child as a subject of culture (of the normative situation). The paper presents an analysis of the psychology of the child’s correspondence with the rules of culture – cultural congruence. Education of the individual in a culture is the formation of the creative potential of the child, based on the capacity of critical analysis and reflection. The authors emphasize that the education of the individual requires means that differ from those that are needed for raising the subject. The article describes a technique for identifying the cultural congruence among 5-6 years old children. The method is based on the identified range of human interaction in the social situations between the child and the adult. It allows to determine compliance of the child with the standards on the basis of indicators of five scales which together form integral indicator of cultural congruence.