FORMATION OF AN AESTHETIC ATTITUDE TO THE NATURE OF THE NATIVE LAND IN OLDER PRESCHOOL CHILDREN THROUGH LANDSCAPE PAINTING
Purpose: scientific substantiation and development of pedagogical conditions for the formation of an aesthetic attitude to the nature of the native land in older preschool children through landscape painting. Methods: the complex of diagnostic procedures included tasks developed by V. S. Mukhina, E. M. Torshilova, T. V. Morozova, and R. M. Chumicheva, aimed at evaluating the structural components of the aesthetic attitude of older preschool children. These are: to see beauty in the environment (cognitive), the ability to express an aesthetic attitude to the nature of the native land (activity), the ability to convey feelings (emotional). Results: that the majority of children of the senior preschool age are at the average level of formation of the aesthetic attitude (ability to use means of expressiveness, to see and allocate beauty, harmony, grace of objects and phenomena of nature, ability to reflect its aesthetics in productive activity and to show value-careful attitude). Based on the results of the examination of the "Center of Fine Arts", we can conclude that the developing subject-spatial environment in the senior group is poor for the formation of an aesthetic attitude to the nature of the native land through landscape painting. Scientific novelty: the use of landscape painting as a means of forming an aesthetic attitude to the nature of the native land in older preschool children. Practical significance: the main provisions and conclusions of the article can be used in scientific and pedagogical activities when considering questions about the formation of an aesthetic attitude to the nature of the native land in older preschool children.