Kuznetsova Yu.M. Cognitive Development in the Process of Environmental Education as a Means of Socialization for Preschoolers

Keywords: cognitive development environmental education child socialization preschoolers

Kuznetsova Yu.M. Cognitive Development in the Process of Environmental Education as a Means of Socialization for Preschoolers // Preschool Education Today. 2017, Issue 3 - p. 24–31.

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2017, 3

Yuliya M. Kuznetsova
Researcher, Institute of Childhood, Family and Care Research of Russian Academy of Education (Moscow, Russia)

Abstract

The author focuses on the issue of cognitive development in the process of environmental education as a means of socialization for 5-6 year-old children, and explores the modern pedagogical approach to the issue of child socialization, proving its necessity for human development at every age. The paper reveals the potentialities of the system of environmental education in the cognitive and social development of 5-6 year-olds in light of Lev Vygotsky’s cultural-historical theory, and presents concrete models for working with preschool children within the framework of the traditional Young Ecologist Programme, aimed at helping children in their indicative-symbolic and research activities. The possibility of including the family in the process of educational and social development of preschoolers is outlined in the paper.