Returning mentoring to education: Experience of the pedagogical community of music directors of preschool educational institutions of Petrozavodsk

mentoring is being restored as a socio-pedagogical phenomenon taking place with the support of the state, the intensification of pedagogical science and the activities of professional pedagogical communities. Mentoring is becoming a ubiquitous practice at all levels of education, carried out in various types and forms, including at the level of online pedagogical communities, in the form of additional pedagogical, in the formats of non-formal professional education of teachers. The article presents methodological approaches (historical-pedagogical, axiological, system-activity, personalized), methods (historical-pedagogical, contextual, comparative analysis, documentary method, pedagogical experiment), the source base of the research. The theoretical part reveals a number of essential aspects of the phenomenon of mentoring in education and its transformation in modern conditions of educational development. The researchers note the cultural and historical conditionality of mentoring and suggest a periodization of mentoring activities in education. The practical part presents the experience of mentoring initiated by members of the professional pedagogical community of music supervisors of preschool educational institutions of the Petrozavodsk city district (pedagogical laboratory «Modern Music»). Mentoring activities carried out in the community are conditioned by a number of objective circumstances, but, above all, they are based on the needs of both the mentor and the mentee in mutually enriching activities. The article introduces the ideas, principles, content, formats of the key area of the community - mentoring activities, the organization and the first results of the work of the «School of Mentoring» structure specially created for its implementation. In conclusion, the results of the study are summarized as opportunities for mentoring in solving current scientific and practical tasks and problems of education.