authors: Voloshchenko N. Korniichuk A.
Urgency of the research. The moral education of the growing generation is the actual issue at the modern state of the development of our state. The preschool age is the period of education of the moral norms of the behavior. One of the effective means of the pedagogical influence on the formation of these norms of the preschoolage’s children is a story-role game.
Target setting. The education of the moral personality is a difficult and multifaceted process. The results of the pedagogical research underline the necessity of the implementation of the educational influence on a child on a few directions simultaneously; firstly, by enriching the common moral experience of a child; secondly, by instilling the positive character traits in different forms of activity. A game is a universal mean of the development of a child of a preschool age. The article reveals the efficiency of the use of a story-role game in the formation of the moral norms of the behavior of the preschoolage’s children.
Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. The problems of the moral education of the preschoolage’s children and organization of a story-role game are covered in the research of L. Artemova, L. Lokhvytska, O. Koshelivska, O. Kononko, I. Bekh, S. Novosyolova, N. Frolova and others.
The research objective. The use of a story-role game in the formation of the moral norms of the behavior of the preschoolage’s children is the efficient mean if the activity of children is correctly organized by a teacher. The observance of the clear rules and moral norms of the behavior in a game activity becomes natural for the preschoolage’s children in everyday life stage by stage.
The statement of basic materials. It is possible to develop the moral norms and skills of child’s behavior only during the process of the close interaction of an adult and a child. The consideration of the peculiarities of a psychological development of the preschoolage’s children, particularly, the presence of the coordination of the motives, is a necessary condition for the forming their moral behavior. The success of the acquisition of knowledge on the moral norms depends on the moral motives of a child and ability to analyze and estimate them. The researchers draw attention to the necessity of the development of the cognitive and intellectual component during formation of the moral behavior of preschoolage’s children. Besides, the importance of the enrichment of the common moral experience of a child and instilling of the positive character traits during the educations are underlined. A story-role game is also one more effective mean of the moral education of the preschoolage’s children. Such games help children to build the social relations properly, to express the empathy, distinguish good and evil, encourage to commit moral acts.
Conclusions. The use of story-role games in the formation of the moral norms of the behavior of preschoolage’s children has educational and teachable potential. They teach children to act in accordance with the moral norms, develop the moral senses, encourage to commit moral acts.
Keywords: moral education, moral norms of behavior, moral acts, a story-role game.
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