Sayapina S. Development of national preschool pedagogics as a science (1960 - the beginning of the 21st century)

The thesis deals with the development of national preschool pedagogics (1960 - the beginning of the 21st century) as an independent science about the laws of upbringing and teaching the preschool children from the points of view of the modern methodological positions. On the basis of the author's criteria it is developed and grounded the periodization of the process of the development of national preschool pedagogics as a science within the defined chronological limits. Has defined the basic regularities, contradictions and leading tendencies of the development of national preschool pedagogics as a science; characterized the genesis of the scientific-theoretical and methodic researches on the problem of upbringing and teaching the preschool children; summarized the results of dissemination of the scientific-pedagogical researches in the field of preschool pedagogics into the educational practice; defined the strategical directions of the development of modern preschool pedagogics in Ukraine.