ORGANIZING SEASONAL NOMADIC STUDENT GROUP AS A PRESCHOOL EDUCATION ELECTIVE MODEL IN THE ARCTIC AREA
Background. One of the main priorities in the pre-school education system of the region is to preserve the original culture of the indigenous ethnic group of the Far North Area. Yamal (translated from the Nenets language - the Edge of the earth) traditionally retains the role of the world's largest center of national reindeer husbandry. In the period 2016 - 2019 the teaching staff of the municipal budgetary preschool educational institution "Seyakhinsky kindergarten "Olenenok" developed and implemented the project "Seasonal nomadic student group of short-term stay "Umka" ("Smart Kids - nomads of the Arctic Area"). The article deals with the main features of the organization of seasonal nomadic group activity for preschoolers as an elective model of preschool education system in nomadic conditions. The aim of the study is to substantiate the effectiveness of the seasonal nomadic student group creating and functioning in the tundra as an elective form of pre-school education in order to preserve and strengthen the ethnic traditions of the peoples of the Far North Area, to implement pre-school training activities for pre-school children, to increase the psychological and pedagogical competence of parents (legal representatives) concerning preschoolers’ development, education and upbringing process. Materials and methods of research. The analysis of research works of scientists and practitioners on the problem of development and implementation of elective forms of preschool education; methodology of project-based management in the preschool education system; questioning of parents (legal representatives) of children attending a seasonal nomadic group. Results. The survey of parents (legal representatives) of children attending the seasonal nomadic group shows that they are highly satisfied with the provided educational services (94% in 2016 and 98.7% in 2019). In addition, more than 24% increased coverage of short-term seasonal nomadic group stay for children aged 3-7, provides bright, creative, cognitive preschool education activities for students following together with their parents a nomadic lifestyle. Conclusion. Thus, the implementation of the project "Seasonal nomadic student short-term stay group "Umka" ("Smart Kids - Nomads of the Arctic Area") for children aged 3-7, following a nomadic lifestyle together with their parents, allowed consolidating the teachers’ experience of the organization "nomadic" education for children in the places of their traditional residence, i.e. in the tundra area (the Yamal district); arranging trusting relationship between students’ parents, following a nomadic lifestyle, and teachers providing their children with "nomadic" forms of organization of educational process; studying the need to create short-term student group stay in nomadic areas; testing pedagogical conditions of pre-school seasonal nomadic student group education.