Abstract:

The article presents theoretical aspects and denotes some positions of the multicultural education of children of preschool age. The author develops a model of multicultural education of preschool children through the game in the investigation. The paper gives an analysis of the essence of the concept of «multicultural education» and in-depth multicultural orientation of preschoolers’ language training, resulting in the development of children of multicultural competence, which becomes a factor in the formation of a tolerant consciousness.

It is considered the main idea and principles of multicultural education, its role in the harmonization of modern society. In the article, the author points to the need for the kindergarten to interact with families of pupils as a necessary condition for the multicultural education of older preschoolers. The author describes the features of the assessment and the system of the teacher’s working in the multicultural education of preschool-age children.

With the purpose of the effective multicultural education, we carried out purposeful work, which included some areas. In the nursery school «Happy & Bright», 6 students at the age of 4were trained in a modular program. Classes lasted 20 minutes and have such activities as educational research, gaming, communication, visual, musical, constructive.

The training modules included the following topics: Family, Holidays, Travel, Fairy Tales, Days of the Week, Food, Clothes, Seasons, City. To improve English learning, the teacher developed the family project «My family and me». Children’s parents took an active part in the following events: a round table, parental conferences, master classes, entertainment games, parental meetings, photo exhibitions, crafts contests, family parties in groups, folklore entertainment. As a result of preschool lessons, speech, language and sociocultural competences were formed. The teacher could develop necessary elementary dialogic and monologue speech skills, thinking, memory, attention, imagination, will, assiduity, logic, creativity, cognitive interest, fantasy, and motivation for learning and creativity.

Preschoolers have learned to understand elementary English speech by ear and the teacher's instructions for performing creative tasks. Also, they began to take short statements by hearing, say hello and goodbye, thank, apologize, represent themselves, and their family members. They told about their toys (animals), knew the days of the week, seasons, the name of vegetables and fruits. Their parents helped to learn the poems and songs by heart. Thus, thanks to multicultural education, a foreign language-based cultural situation has emerged which has become the foundation of the process of educating a multicultural personality of a preschooler.

Keywords:

Multicultural education, preschoolers, nursery school, parents, pedagogical potential.