Viktor I. Panov

The interview on ecopsychological approach to understanding of child development is presented in this article. The essence of this approach is the study of specific interaction between a man and the environment. A special role in this interaction is assigned to the educational environment. In the light of ecopsychological approach, the role of education in the development of intellectually gifted children is considered. Viktor Panov notes that this is not about finding gifted children, but about building conditions for realization of the unique potential of each and every child.

Development of motor activity in preschool children is necessary not only for their physical development, but also is the conditions and the means of overall mental development. The authors emphasize that bodily movements serve as an operational component of mastering different activities, essential to overall mental development. Motor activity is described not as a structure of motor actions, but is analyzed as physical activity in which voluntary movements begin their formation. For learning motor skills by children of senior preschool age and older a training program “Shamrock” as a teaching method was implemented. The authors introduce the analysis of the results of indicators of physical activity for children involved in this program. There were introduced empirical evidence showing that the development of physical activity for children of preschool age becomes a condition and factor of their overall mental development when learning motor skills is focused on the development of subjectivity of a child as a subject of motor actions.