PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL FOUNDATIONS GAME ACTIVITY OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN

Abstract

The article highlights the urgency of the problem of game activity organization in the educational process of modern preschool education institution. Using the method of theoretical analysis of psychological-pedagogical and methodological literature on the research problem, the essence of the concepts «game activity», «activity», «game», «psychological and pedagogical foundations» is described. The author highlights the aspects of the use of games during early childhood; the peculiarities of development of mental processes of senior preschool children in game activity; the tendencies of the systematization of children’s games of modern researchers; the content of the pedagogical guidance of the game activity of preschool children.