Popova E.I. Teaching tolerance towards the disabled in preschool childhood
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Abstract
The grounds for tolerance towards the disabled must be formed at the very early stages of personality development – in preschool childhood, when a child is being acquainted to the outside world and learns primary social skills.
Kindergarten plays the major role in acquiring tolerance because it is the teaching process that creates situations of cultural, interpersonal, formal and informal communication. The problem in the view is of urgent importance in small towns, where integrated education is absent. That is why the solution could be enactment of communication with the disabled that involves live-through experience and comprehension of cultural value of non-violence, empathy and mutual respect. The article describes the original program “The World is one for everyone” that was designed around the aforementioned principles, including plans and examples of classes.