Technologies of Integrated Education of Preschool Children

One of the effective ways of updating the content and teaching methods in modern preschool education institutions is integration. Integration processes in the system of preschool education are a component of general innovation processes and a characteristic feature of the socio-cultural space of modern education. A comprehensive study of the problem of integration in education confirmed its significance and positive impact on the pedagogical process, which was expressed in the desire to develop a modern personality, which is characterized by systemic thinking, the ability to consciously analyze one's activities, one's own actions. The article reveals different approaches to understanding the essence of the concept of "integration" and reflects the main interpretations of this term in reference, dictionary-encyclopedic and pedagogical publications, scientific studies. Based on the research analysis, the ways of implementing the principle of integration in the practice of preschool education are determined. It is shown that the implementation of the principle of integration in preschool education involves the formation of child's of preschool age whole picture of the world, and the formation of a child's picture of the world as a whole determines not only the path of the child's intellectual development, but also determines the development of his creative potential, forms a way of perceiving the world figuratively. A number of integrative blocks are singled out, within which integration is carried out in the preschool education institution: nature, its main regularities and relations; the world of people and art, their relationships and regularities. Factors and components, the interaction of which ensures obtaining a corresponding integral result, are highlighted. The system-forming factors of integration are named. The main focus is on the characteristics of technologies of integrated education of preschool children, such as: a game, a project, STREAM-education. Their advantages and features of application in the educational space of a preschool education institution are highlighted. The transition to an integrated educational process is an urgent need today, which is due to the modernization of preschool education and the psychophysiological characteristics of modern preschoolers, their socio-cultural demands. Further research will be aimed at developing methodological recommendations for the use of integrated learning technologies in the educational process of a preschool education institution.