Shevchenko A. Gender education of junior schoolchildren by means of folklore in the conditions of polycultural region

The dissertation research is devoted to the problem of gender education of junior schoolchildren by means of folklore in the conditions of polycultural region. It considers and scientifically grounds the essence of concept "gender education" and ,,gender education of junior schoolchildren"; the peculiarities of gender education of junior schoolchildren in the polycultural region are defined. Exceptional possibilities of folklore of people of Crimea as an effective means of gender education of junior schoolchildren are revealed. The research conducted allowed to define and to check up the efficiency of pedagogical conditions of gender education of junior schoolchildren. It made possible to develop the technology of gender education of junior schoolchildren and to introduce it into the process of education and upbringing of children in primary school. The technology included such stages as introduction stage, emotional stage, creative stage, stage of independent work. According to the results of control stage of experiment most of junior schoolchildren of experimental class revealed the levels of gender and sex-role conduct.