Methodological support for preschool educators in mastering approaches to raising the younger generation

The research problem and the rationale for its relevance. The preschool educator plays a pivotal role in organizing the upbringing of young children. The educator's professionalism in nurturing the younger generation determines the child's harmonious development, grounded in traditional Russian spiritual and moral values, which is fundamental to the nation's integrity and unity. The scientific article identifies the preschool period as optimal for fostering patriotism and love for one's homeland, thereby creating a need to identify effective avenues for methodological support to help preschool educators organize this aspect of their work. It is substantiated that current regulatory documents governing patriotic education in the educational environment set benchmarks for increasing the proportion of patriotic activities at all levels of the Russian Federation's educational system. This fact, in turn, underscores the urgency of enhancing the system of methodological support for preschool educators in mastering approaches to raising the younger generation. The goal of research is to substantiate a system of methodological support for preschool educators in mastering approaches to raising the younger generation. Methodology (Materials and Methods). The methodological foundation of the research is based on the key principles of the systemic, synergetic, and activity-based approaches. The primary research methods include analysis, synthesis, generalization, and systematization of scientific literature on the research problem. Results. The scientific article presents a theoretical analysis of the study's key concepts: methodological support for preschool educators and patriotic education. It is established that methodological support for preschool educators in mastering approaches to raising the younger generation encompasses diverse forms of methodological work aimed at assisting and supporting educators in fostering patriotic upbringing and patriotism in preschoolers. Within the context of this study, patriotic education of preschoolers can be interpreted as a systematic and purposeful process of forming patriotic consciousness and behavior in students. The structural components of the system of methodological support for preschool educators in the process of mastering approaches to raising the younger generation are described, based on the classic component structure of the pedagogical process proposed by N. V. Kuzmina (gnostic, design, constructive, communicative, and organizational components).