Bila I. Psychology of creative design in the preschool years.

The dissertation is devoted to studying the specifics of design creativity in the preschool years. In a systematic approach on the design work and creative design and how their knowledge adjusts. We identify assessment criteria and performance indicators of the design creativity of children of preschool age. We consider the psychological structure of the design activity, clarified its characteristics and defined the role of each component of the creative design process in the preschool years. An empirical study found out that the process of understanding the problems in preschool children is dominated by the mental acts involved in the analogies. Their orientation is determined by the design concept for structural and structural-functional characteristics of the subjects. Testing solutions and checks the design specifies the hypothesis of the child. The whole structure of the solution process preschooler's creative tasks for design integrates the individual and the regulatory aspects of creative design. It appears in the subjective mental actions and practical operations. An integrated functional psycho didactic model of creative design activity is proposed. It includes theoretical and methodological basis. The model is a conceptual framework of genesis solving process designing tasks of preschoolers. The scheme of the process consists of successive stages: exploring the job, the study of its conditions; understanding of the task (by searching for analogies, combination, reconstructing), forming a hypothesis, design (a reference which are structural or functional attributes of objects), hypothesis, testing it (in practice or by mental experiment). The model shows the mechanism of creative design, its trends and the vector development. Methodological tools of the model is a comprehensive program of creative training "Children's Creative Konstruktologiya". This system is specially organized to influence the creative activity of a preschooler, promotion, development of creative thinking strategic trends. It manifests itself in all phases of the creative process of design. The conditions, resources and milestones for its implementation take into account the psychological characteristics of the design of preschoolers.