2009, 6
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p. 20-25
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Being essential to child’s development, physical education in preschool educational establishments has always been one of the bases of integral education. The article provides with additional programs to standard physical education that base on developmental aspect, like music and rhythmic forms, and learning aspect, like history of the Olympic movement.
2009, 6
p. 56-58
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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.
2009, 6
p. 8-13
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Improving teacher work at various areas of preschool educational system is becoming vital in these days of overall rapid development. The article traces back educational curriculums in Russian history of preschool education.
2009, 6
p. 44-45
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Building upon his own experience, the author describes feelings of a preschooler about death of a close person. The article discusses the appropriateness of exposing a child to such traumatic event as death and comes to conclusion that a child should be protected against early acquaintance with issue of death.
2009, 6
p. 46-48
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The article discusses how to explain the phenomenon of death to a child. The author shows that a grownup should refrain from personal experience and own understanding of death when explaining it to a child, keeping in mind psychological traits of young children, - for a grownup in this matter sets a model of death’s perception. The author also advises to use appropriate literature as a tool for accepting death and turning to grief.
2009, 6
p. 26-29
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Present boom of early development methods arouse mostly from popularization of fundamental and applied researches on psychology of early years children. Russian psychological science is also rich with development research on early years, with the most prominent works of L. Kitaev on dynamic gymnastics, integral body therapy method of V. Pozdnyakov and A. Semenovich’s sensomotor development method.
2009, 6
p. 74-79
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Today, preschool education is a diverse business that provides with various educational products – original methods and educational technologies, vast variety of which often puzzles parents in their pursuit for the right choice for their child. For this reason parents tend to seek professional advice from a child psychologist, and always get a professional answer - to search for a program that considers foundational principles of child’s mind and its developmental stages, fits individual peculiarities of their child, family, their values and traditions. Nevertheless, parents are still left alone to look for the program that successfully incorporates those principles. This article guides parents through major developmental and educational programs to help them decide the best one for their child.
2009, 6
p. 40-42
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Unfortunately in our modern society parents spent less time playing with children for different reasons: some of them are busy at work or at home: others believe that the preschooler can play alone and that such game will contribute to the development of purposefulness more than play with a grown up; and there are parents who simply do not know how to play with the child. Hence, we observe a conflict, when, coming for a child in kindergarten, the parent hears: "I do not want to go home, I want to play in the kindergarten!" Parents get an erroneous impression that in preschool establishment children are only playing, and also parents face with their own inability to organize the game. To show parents the importance of the game as the basis for the formation of child abilities, we decided to apply a new form of work with parents - conduct game activities.