CRITERIA-DIAGNOSTIC COMPLEX FOR STUDYING THE CREATIVELY DIRECTED PERSONALITY OF A SENIOR PRESCHOOL CHILD IN ALTERNATIVE PRESCHOOL EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS (USING THE EXAMPLE OF AN OUT-OF-SCHOOL EDUCATION INSTITUTION)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the state of formation of the creatively oriented personality of a senior preschooler in an institution of extracurricular education. The authors rely on the basic provisions of psychological and pedagogical science, emphasizing the importance of preschool childhood as a period of intensive development of the psyche, the formation of the «I-concept», criticality and reflective thinking. The article considers the stages of experimental and experimental work, which include theoretical and methodological, experimental and technological and reflective stages.At each stage, various psychodiagnostic methods are used, such as the «Circle» test, the Vartegg test, the «Non-existent animal» method and others, to assess the creative abilities of children. The authors offer criteria and indicators of the formation of a creatively oriented personality, including cognitive-creative, competence-activity, social- communicative, motivational-motivational and emotional-volitional criteria.The levels of formation of the creatively oriented personality of a senior preschooler are determined: latent, unstable, expressed and dominant. The latent level is characterized by hidden features of the manifestation of the components of the creative personality, their partial absence. The unstable level involves situational manifestations of the signs of a creatively oriented personality. The expressed level is marked by stable manifestations of creative signs in all types of life activities. The dominant level is characterized by a clearly expressed system of values and creative orientation.The article also contains recommendations for the implementation of the technology of forming a creatively oriented personality in the practice of extracurricular educational institutions.Thus, the article is an important contribution to the development of the methodology of research and formation of the creatively directed personality of a senior preschooler, offering a systematic approach to the assessment and development of children’s creative abilities in extracurricular educational institutions.