PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL PREPARATION OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN FOR SCHOOL AND ITS ROLE IN THE SUCCESSFUL ADAPTATION OF FIRST-GRADERS

Abstract

Modern socioeconomic integration, ongoing educational reforms, and globalization processes place new requirements on the continuity between primary education and preschool training. The transition from a preschool educational organization to a school environment requires children to adapt not only academically, but also psychologically, emotionally, volitionally, and socially. During this period, a fundamental turning point occurs in a child's life: play, as the leading activity, gives way to systematic and mandatory learning activities. Consequently, a new social role—the status of a "pupil"—emerges, bringing with it new duties and interpersonal relations.