The dissertation was carried out in accordance with the research topic of the
Department of Preschool Education of Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, «Preparing
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Future Preschool Education Specialists for Psychological and Pedagogical Support of
Early Childhood Development» (State Registration Number in UkrINTI:
0121U113725). The dissertation topic was approved at the meeting of the Academic
Council of Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University (Protocol No. 9 dated October 28,
2021).
The dissertation is an independent, holistic, and complete study that presents
theoretical and practical aspects of pedagogical conditions for promoting selfexpression
of children of the fifth year of life in the environment of preschool
educational institutions. The study contains new scientifically substantiated theoretical
and practical results, which is significant beyond the development of Ukrainian
preschool education. The introduction substantiates the relevance, defines the object,
subject, goal, objectives, and research methods; reveals the scientific novelty and
practical significance of the work; provides information on the testing and
implementation of the research results, publications, and the structure and scope of the
dissertation. The relevance of the topic is due to regulatory documents, according to
which the issue of creating optimal conditions for the personal development and selfrealization
of the child becomes crucial, forming kids an active, cognitive, creative
attitude towards the natural and social environment, developing the ability to
successfully navigate a variety of objects and phenomena, mastering effective methods
of activity and thinking strategies through understanding one's own self. However, in
the practice of preschool education, two diametrically opposed models continue to
function: personality-oriented and educational-disciplinary. The latter, despite its
convenience for organizing and controlling the educational process, does not
correspond to the personal paradigm in education and limits the child's opportunities
for self-expression. The problem that needs to be solved at the theoretical and
praxeological levels is to provide conditions in a preschool educational institution that
would promote children's self-expression during various activities. This is verified by
a number of contradictions between: awareness of the priority of the preschool
childhood period as strategic, decisive and defining in the formation of a personality
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and ignoring the authentic needs and requests of children of the fifth year of life for
self-expression in various types of activities; the need to modernize the content, forms
and methods of educational interaction with preschool children with the integration of
alternative foreign experience and current pedagogical conditions in preschool
educational institutions of Ukraine; declared personally oriented, competency-based,
developmental, and environmental approaches to pedagogical support of preschool
children and the actual dominance of the regulated educational system in preschool
education institutions. Therefore, the relevance of the problem and its social
significance are beyond doubt.
