2010, 2
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p. 8-12
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Today many preschool educational establishments offer ecological educational programs. The article provides with examples of teaching ecological notions to young children and introduces special questionnaires as an evaluation tool of learning progress.
2010, 2
p. 32-37
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Problems of proper attitude towards nature and its resources have never been more urgent than today, which proves that so far people didn’t quite master productive and safe interrelations among themselves and with the surrounding world. One of the answers to this problem is systematic ecological education, which is intended to form ecological thinking and ecological culture in preschoolers and their caretakers.
2010, 2
p. 38-43
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The article is on the results of implementing normative project activity method. The article describes teacher work on making children to establish rules for generally troublesome activities, such as going to bed or for a walk. The author illustrates how teacher-child elaboration on a rule and its sign make children integrate their emotional experience with the cognitive context. The article also points out the role of a teacher in organizing normative activity.
2010, 2
p. 76-84
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As we know, teaching children is passing on the cultural knowledge. But does that mean that grownups can think along with a child? Or ask yourself a broader question – how can one teach a child to think? The article explains the basics of philosophizing with the preschool children, major methods and techniques of such practice. The author guides through the logic of philosophizing and points out various pitfalls that await grownups on this path. Special attention is drawn to cognitive actions that children master during philosophizing.