Integrated approach in preschool education: a fashion or a requirement of the times?

Abstract

The article discusses the problem of implementing an integrated approach in the system of preschool education at the present stage both in preschool education institutions and in the system of higher school. Why did it become necessary to reconsider this problem, the relevance of which was discussed at length in the early twenty-first century? The appeal to the organization of the educational process in the preschool education system of Ukraine is connected with the adoption of the Concept "New Ukrainian School", which states that the leading principle of the content of education in primary school is the integration of the content of related new modules from other subjects (NUS, 2016: 25). The implementation of the principle of continuity in the organization of the educational process in preschool education has again raised the issue of intensifying the integrated approach in the system of preschool education, the core of which is the principle of integration. The article presents the results of the analysis of the scientific and terminological field of the concept of "integration" in terms of the variety of its interpretations and terminology in the definition of methodological approaches (integration, integrative, integral, integrated); specifies the application of the integrated approach in the modern educational field of both preschool education and higher school. Purpose of the article: to characterize the current state of implementation of the integrated approach in the modern practice of preschool education. The objectives of the study are to analyze the views of scientists on their understanding of the content position of scientific concepts that are components of the integrated approach. To focus the current practical application of the integrated approach in the system of preschool education.

Keywords

• preschool education
• approach
• integration
• integrated
• classes
• educational process
• academic discipline
• preschool education institution
• higher school
• integrity