Veronika A. Kurasheva

After the analysis of cultural and educational literature, the authors found that the very essence of child upbringing has long been expressed in folk culture, or folk wisdom, such as proverbs, sayings, myths, riddles and tales. Applicably to ecological education, successful development depends on richness of ethnical environment and appropriateness of methods and forms of special educational activities. The article describes experimental program “The young ecologist” that was piloted at Moscow kindergarten # 1012.

The article is devoted to the process of integration - a relatively new phenomenon in Russian pedagogy. It is noted that currently few steps towards uniting the various components of education – content of education, means and methods of training and education that would ensure the formation of a child’s coherent picture of the world – were made. Implementation of the Program of kindergarten and educational activities with children are made through special structural units - “educational areas”, which are according to a new Educational standard of Russia described as “certain lines of development and education of children”. The experience of the teachers of kindergarten № 1012 of Moscow in the sphere of ecological education of children in different age groups helped to integrate different activities for preschool children in the frame of the program “Young Ecologist”. An example of one class which presents the integration of various educational areas is described.