2009, 2
2009, 2
p. 12-19
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340
The article views history of “Indigo children” term, as well as causes and reasons of its popularization. The author scientifically disproves widely spread notions about the existence of “Indigo children”.
2009, 2
p. 28-35
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390
Heightened aggressiveness is one of the characteristic problems of modern children. Should these forms of a child’s activity and vitality (especially among boys) be considered natural and necessary, or should they be timely suppressed? To answer this question the author analyzes causes of heightened aggressiveness of preschool children and psychological traits of aggressive children.
2009, 2
p. 36-42
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386
Role play’s developmental function for preschoolers is axiomatic for national psychologists and pedagogues. However, in 1970’s child psychologies noticed that due to various reasons natural transfer of play skills from senior to younger children became troubled. The article views the structure of modern child play and analyzes its influence on child’s development.
2009, 2
p. 50-57
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554
Presently, the number of preschool children reading books is declining. As children spend most of their time in kindergartens, it’s preschool teachers who should inculcate in them a taste for reading. The author provides with advice on choosing child literature and describes various activities, games and creative tasks aimed at getting children acquainted with the culture of reading.
2009, 2
p. 58-63
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419
The article views major ways of a preschooler imagination’s development, describes functions of imagination and its role in preschool age. Particular attention was drawn to a child play in its connection with development of imagination. The author also explains “imaginary friends” phenomenon within a context of play activities.
2009, 2
p. 64-67
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377
The article views various types of encouragement and gives advice on how emotional and how frequent child encouragement should be. The author proves the necessity of taking into consideration objective and subjective value of a child’s deed, as well as individual features of a child and his or her family’s conventional style of communication.
2009, 2
p. 88-94
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The article is on a system of preschool education of Israel. It describes Israeli attitude towards preschooler’s health care and diet, religious matters inside kindergarten, instruction of preschool teachers and questions of curriculum composition. The author analyzes the role of play activities in preschool educational establishments and puts a special emphasis on governmental attitude toward to a pedagogue profession.