Methodology of life safety lessons in children of the preschool education

To identify the component features of the culture of life safety of children of senior preschool age. Methods: A set of diagnostic procedures, such as the Diagnostic Toolkit, included a set of tasks developed by A.I. Nasretdinova and focused on the assessment of each of the above structural components of the safety culture of life of children of senior preschool age allowed us to analyze the features of safety culture. Results: based on the analysis of psycho- logical and pedagogical research on this issue, the genesis of the development of the basis of the culture of safe behavior in preschool age as a step-by-step process of adaptation to the dangers of the surrounding world is considered. The results of the study revealed that the cognitive component of a culture of life safety in older preschoolers is characterized by a lack of comprehensiveness of existing ideas about life safety, sources of danger and behaviors in different situations of danger. In the older preschool age, an emotional attitude to hazard situations is not sufficiently formed. Emotional reactions of children to behavior in different situations are not sufficiently differentiated, they are difficult to choose the right behavior in a particular situation. Analysis of the educational resources of the organization of preschool education for the formation of a safety culture showed its deficiency, the lack of developmental incentives in it for the formation of safe behavior. Scientific novelty: in the article based on the use of a complex of psychological and pedagogical methods, the dynamics and conditions for the development of the basis of a culture of life safety of modern preschool children are identified and characterized. Practical significance: the main provisions and conclusions of the article can be used in scientific and pedagogical activity when considering issues of the nature and development trends of the basis of safety culture in modern children of preschool age.