EVOLUTION OF METHODS OF PLAYING ACTIVITIES OF PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN

The study of the problem evolution and sources database made it possible to classify the scientific work covering the theoretical aspects of the curriculum and methodological support transformation for the preschool children play activity in the defined chronological limits. The first group includes scientific papers devoted to the analysis of theoretical principles of play activity and the formation and development process of curriculum content and methodological support for the play activity in public preschool education (K. Dyakonova, N. Kudykina, T. Filimonova et al.). The second group of works includes the studies revealing the nature of the game and its psychological and pedagogical mechanism, as well as games classification (D. Elkonin, O. Zaporozhets, O. Leontiev, H. Lublinska, E. Manujlenko et al.). The third group of scientific papers is devoted to the pedagogical study of children’s games (L. Artemova, T. Hubenko, V. Zalohina, V. Zakharchenko, R. Ibrahimova, N. Kudykina T. Markova, O. Usova, I. Shkolna, O. Yankivska et al.) and covers the guiding techniques for the game (R. Zhukovska D. Mendzherytska, R. Rimbuh, P. Samorukova et al.). The outlined problem is defined to some extent in the works of contemporary Ukrainian scholars, namely, the formation of relationships in preschool joint game (K. Shcherbakova); pedagogical support of children play activity (N. Kudykina); senior preschool children social adaptation by means of play activity (N. Zakharova); the primary economic experience formation for senior preschool children by means of play activity (A. Sazanova); the features of the role-playing game development for older preschoolers (S. Ladyvir); the development of preschool children’s communicative functions in the creative play (K. Karaseva); the game in the educational space of the kindergarten (N. Havrysh). The fourth group of works is the scientific achievements on the development of preschool teaching (preschool education) in different historical periods in Ukraine (L. Artemova, L. Batlina, S. Popychenko T. Stepanova, I. Ulyukayeva et al.). The scientists carried out a series of educational research focused on different areas of the child education in pre-school in Ukraine (L. Verhazova, O. Donchenko, N. Lazarevych, O. Styahunova, M. Chernyavska et al.). The works covering become valuable for the research: periods of national educational concept (L. Berezivska, N. Dichek, N. Hupan, O. Sukhomlynska); the establishment and development of public preschool (L. Artemova, Z. Borysova T. Stepanova, I. Ulyukayeva et al.), which served as a basis for the development of periodization for curriculum and methodological support of preschool children play activity in Ukraine (second half of XX – beginning of XXI c.). The results of the evolution and sources analysis allow us to state in mind that the scientific understanding of the gained experience in changes history within the content and methodological support of preschoolers’ play activity will facilitate the efficient implementation of the tasks for providing quality pre-school education and improvement for its development in the future