EARLY CAREER GUIDANCE OF PRESCHOOLERS: ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE PARTIAL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM OF PRESCHOOL EDUCATION “WE LIVE IN THE TRANS-URALS” (AUTHORS: N.A. KARATAEVA, O.V. KREZHEVSKIKH)

Abstract

The article studies a problem of early career guidance of preschool children, which is understood by the author as the creation of psychological and pedagogical conditions for future professional self-determination and development of the child’s personality, the disclosure and realization of his potential. The author substantiates the necessity and timeliness of addressing this problem, considers the content and methods of early career guidance on the example of the partial educational program of preschool education “We live in the Trans-Urals” (by N.A. Karataeva and O.V. Krezhevskikh). According to the author, early career guidance in a preschool educational institution involves the formation of preschool-age children’s ideas about the world of professions and the acquisition of game experience by preschoolers, which allows them to immerse themselves in the world of professions during a role-playing game, understand the meaning and significance of professional work and later become a subject of professional self-determination at an older age. The examples given in the article allow clearly demonstrating the psychological and pedagogical conditions of early career guidance in a preschool educational institution. Of particular interest is the content and organizational blocks of the section “World of professions” of the partial educational program “We live in the Trans-Urals.” The article is published with the support of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation as part of the execution of the state task of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation to perform applied research work on the topic “Designing an educational environment for early career guidance of preschool children.”