The development of preschoolers’ cognitive and communicative activity in the process of educational and research activities in nature

Abstract

Preschool education remains one of the strategic directions of state policy in the field of education. The current state of development of society in Ukraine opens considerable opportunities for updating the education content based on the principles of child-centeredness, humanization, and integration. The main aim of this article is to consider an essential issue of preschool education. As methods, analysis of productive activities (results of completed tasks), observation of children, and conversation with them are utilized. It is the organization of educational and research activities in nature as a means of developing preschool children’s cognitive and communicative activity. Emphasis is put on their role in preschoolers’ personal development, the feasibility of its implementation in preschool education. It is concluded that increasing the preschoolers’ level of cognitive and communicative activity is possible using mnemonic tables and fairy tales about nature.