Pedagogical aspect of national education of pre-school age children

Scientific studies clearly show that the child should be under constant nurturing influence of material and spiritual culture of its people. First, it is necessary to disclose the natural inclinations of the child and its abilities, identify its features.. The aim of the article is to reveal the essence of national education and share the experience of national education of preschool children by means of Ethnology. The national education system, generated by a historical process created by the people, concentrating on family values, ideas, attitudes, beliefs, traditions, customs, educational institutions and cultural centers that focus on the organization of life of the younger generation, its education in the spirit of natural-historical development of material and spiritual culture of the nation. The system of education is based on the principles of family upbringin, public pedagogy, scientific and pedagogical thought that are absorbed in the heritage of the national educational wisdom, the achievements of world culture. The national system of education should be aimed at deepening and reproducing of the emotional and aesthetic, artistic, creative and intellectual component of the native people, to create conditions for the development and flourishing of the natural instincts and talents of every citizen of the country, the formation of spiritual potential of the highest values of the nation and the state. The main purpose of national education at the present stage is to transfer to the younger generation of social experience, wealth of spiritual culture of the people, its national mentality, identity and worldview based on the formation of personality traits of the citizen of Ukraine, development of individual abilities and talents. As stated above, in modern conditions the problem of implementation and introduction of national education in Ukraine is a necessary task for society as a whole. We can say that a country that does not have its original and unique system of education, the national idea has no historical future. The essence and peculiarities of the concept "national education" have been highlighted, the implementation of the basic tasks, principles, forms and methods of education in the national education system in a number of major priority directions of national education development have been examined.