Uruntaeva G.A., Gosheva E.N. Problem situations as means of personality pedagogical diagnostics of preschool children by a pedagogue

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Uruntaeva G.A., Gosheva E.N. Problem situations as means of personality pedagogical diagnostics of preschool children by a pedagogue // Preschool Education Today. 2016, Issue 4 - p. 24–33.

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Ekaterina N. Gosheva
PhD in Pedagogy, Associate Professor of Early Childhood and Primary Education Department, Institute for the Development of Education, Murmansk, Russia

Galina A. Uruntaeva
Doctor of Psychology, Professor, Leading Staff Researcher, Institute of Childhood, Family and Care Research of Russian Academy of Education, Moscow, Russia

Abstract

Search for compact and at the same time effective means of pedagogical diagnostics, which could easily fit into the educational activities of preschool educational institution leads to a discussion of the possibility of using pedagogical problem situations as such means. These situations contain certain social problems that a child solves together with an adult. Problem situations create conditions of children’s activities and communication, where it is necessary to analyze and / or evaluate the behavior of other people and choose a strategy own behavior in view of its possible consequences. Problem situations are used in psycho-diagnostics, and are similar to the method of the natural experiment. By their target orientation, substantial and structural organization (themes and questions), species (illustrative simulation and real situations), requirements to their design and stages, educational and diagnostic problem situations are quite similar. The process of transformation of pedagogical problem situations into the diagnostical suggests following the logic of the diagnostic process, compliance with its stages - design, content organization, analysis and prognosis.