The article deals with the issues of supporting and developing the gender identity of boys at the stage of preschool childhood. The authors argue that it is possible to form the socially determined ideas about males in boys and to teach them the gender behavior based on these ideas but it should be carried out at the stage of pre-school childhood. The article contains the material of the experiment including specially selected forms, methods and conditions for teaching boys the masculinity at a senior pre-school age. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that the totality of the findings contains a solution to the problem: the special forms and methods of working with preschoolers used in teaching allowed us to form specific features of gender-role behavior at a pre-school age. The theoretical significance is that the study defines the components of gender identity (cognitive, emotional-personal, behavioral) and their content, and identifies the factors that contribute to the development of gender identity in boys. The practical significance of the study lies in the applied orientation of the findings that can be widely employed in the practice of pre-school educational organizations.

Актуальность статьи обусловлена наличием проблемы использования детской литературы в качестве педагогического средства в воспитании и обучении детей дошкольного и младшего школьного возраста. Произведённый анализ историко-педагогических источников позволил выявить и описать особенности использования детской литературы в дошкольном воспитании и начальном обучении в 20 – 30 гг. прошлого столетия в России. В этой связи представляют интерес представленные в статье дискуссии педагогов, писателей и поэтов о допустимых жанрах, содержании и выразительных средствах литературы для дошкольников и младших школьников. В статье описаны формы ознакомления с произведениями детской литературы, методические приёмы её использования в дошкольном воспитании и начальном обучении в указанные годы. Авторы статьи утверждают, что смена идеологической парадигмы в государстве порождает новые требования к содержанию и отбору методических приемов в системе образования, отвечающих совершенно определённым (политическим, социально-экономическим, педагогическим) целям на конкретном историческом этапе жизни общества. The relevance of the article is due to the presence of the problem of using children's literature as a pedagogical tool in the upbringing and teaching of children of pre-school and primary school age. The analysis of historical and pedagogical sources made it possible to identify and describe the features of the use of children's literature in pre-school education and primary education in the 20-3s. last century in Russia. In this respect, the discussion of teachers, writers and poets about acceptable genres, content and expressive means of literature for pre-schoolers and primary schoolchildren presented in the article is of interest. At the same time, the article describes the forms of acquaintance with the works of children's literature, methodological methods of its use in pre-school education and primary education in the indicated years. The authors of the article argue that the change in the ideological paradigm in the state gives rise to new requirements for the content and selection of means in the education system that meet completely specific (political, socio-economic, pedagogical) goals at a specific historical stage in the life of society.

The article discusses the contribution of Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor M.I. Bogomolova to the theory and practice of Russian pedagogical science. The authors of the article, being the receivers of the historical and pedagogical views and ideas of Professor M.I. Bogomolova, express their gratitude and deep respect for many years of cooperation and assistance in building and conducting scientific research in the field of pedagogy and education, based on the materials of the Republic of Tatarstan. The article provides examples of scientific studies, the authors of which use the methodological approaches used by M.I. Bogomolova today in their own historical and pedagogical research and reflected in the research of her followers