Frolenkova N. Scientific-Methodological Providing of the Content of Pre-School Education in Ukraine (Second Half of the XX - Beginning of the XXI Century).

The research deals with the problem of scientific-methodological providing of the content of pre-school education in Ukraine (second half of the XX - beginning of the XXI century) in which for the first time on the basis of complex historic-chronological analysis of pre-school education in Ukraine current scientific methodological providing has been characterized and the components have been singled out in its structure: lawmaking, regulatory-legal and program-methodological providing; the factors of influence onto the evolution of scientific-methodological providing have been determined, which are stipulated by politic-economical and social cultural conditions at various stages of pre-school education functioning; basic approaches to forming program-methodological providing of pre-school education have been systematized (from 1950-s, when unified scientifically and conceptually grounded approaches to program making were absent - to prolonging of every chapter of current programs by the principal of succession according to personally oriented, operational and competence directions of their content realization); it is proved that the aim and the content of pre-school education at the end of 1990-s and till present time have been objectively determined by conceptual guidelines: basic terms and definitions have been further developed and corrected: "content of pre-school education", "quality of pre-school education", "scientific-methodological providing", "program-methodological providing", "program providing", "educational program", "methodological providing", "pedagogical diagnostics" and other.