The role of the puppet in promoting the prosocial behaviour of preschool children  

The thesis entitled The Role of the Puppet in Promoting the Prosocial Behaviour of Preschool Children consists of theoretical and empirical work. The theoretical part deals with the doll in education, the power and importance of the doll in the preschool period, its influence on the child's emotional and social development, and how the child, when playing with the doll, solves problems and influences its development. The theatre pedagogy, which includes creative drama and drama in education, is presented below. The last part of the theoretical part discusses the development and characteristics of prosocial behaviour and how it is promoted during the preschool years. In the theoretical part, each chapter presents the role of the educator, which is related to the promotion of the child's development or play. The empirical part presents the project Dragon in kindergarten, which I carried out with 24 children aged 5-6 years. The project lasted 4 weeks and involved various activities in the field of art. The children met the dragon, played various cognitive and social games and games of emotion. They also learned about the dragon's land and the events in it that made the Dragon land in kindergarten. The dragon presented his story and relationships with other dragons to the children, and the children sought solutions to his problem through artistic activities. The goals of the project were to bring art to children as a means of expressing their thinking. At the same time, the goal was to encourage children to actively explore and find solutions to the problem of developing prosocial behaviour. One of the major goals was to deepen prosocial behaviour and improve interpersonal relationships between children, and to encourage quiet and restrained children to create. All the goals were met, as the children were active researchers of the creative project that helped the Dragon to fly back to his land with new wings and knowledge of conflict situations presented to him by his story. with a theatrical performance. They created their story, puppets and scene, and let themselves be guided by the play and the imagination