Postmodern Trends in Teaching Painting to Preschoolers in the Post-Soviet Space

Abstract

The article presents theoretical generalization and offers new solutions to the problem of developing creative skills in preschoolers in painting classes, taking into account the postmodern tendencies which are becoming increasingly common in the post-Soviet countries. The relevance of the article lies in the need to reform today’s education system in the post-Soviet space and develop pedagogical technologies to enhance the effectiveness of preschool education and reveal the creative potential of each child in the context of the postmodernism and the latest achievements in psychology of creativity. The paper aims to develop and theoretically justify a technology for developing creative skills in preschoolers in painting classes in educational institutions for the postcolonial democracies on the example of Ukraine based on the analysis of relevant scientific sources and teaching placement. The article also substantiates the technology for developing creative skills in preschoolers in painting classes, which is defined as a model for organizing artistic and aesthetic activity of preschoolers aimed at expanding their cognitive experience and emotional perception of the world, as well as cultivating their aesthetic attitude to its objects and ensuring creative self-expression of each child. The article proves the validity of the open performative postmodernist approach, according to which playing activities, perception and enjoyment from creativity act as the main drivers of the creative activity of primary school children.

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“…Pre-school education, which is the first social environment that children get to know other than their family and immediate environment, shapes their social skills by taking on the care and development of children while parents are working and it forms the foundations of lifelong learning by preparing children for the primary education level (European Commission, 2019;Çimen & Koçyiğit, 2010;Wang et al, 2019). It focuses on developing children's creative skills, and is also of vital importance for the child's development (Shulha et al, 2021). Its contribution to the cognitive development, socialisation and early childhood education of the child is indispensable for parents (Kamerman, 2007).…”

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“…Reforms carried out to increase the effectiveness of pre-school education aim to bring out the creativity of children and aim to develop pedagogical technologies accordingly (Shulha et al, 2021). Shulha et al (2021) draws attention to the lack of pedagogical technologies aimed at developing children's creativity skills in the pre-school period and points out that technology should also be developed for the development of creative skills. Bicen and Haidov (2021) express that individuals' lives in the modern age are interlinked with technology and emphasise that it is impossible to think of a modern individual without bases of pre-school education is education programs, the other one is teacher training programs and teachers.…”