Pilot study of the levels of social and personal development in preschool children in a theater studio

Batueva Svetlana Vladimirovna, Zhakupova Yana Turanovana, Gerasimova Oksana Yurievna, Semchenko Lyubov Nikolaevna

The article reveals and empirically confirms the influence of the theater studio on the levels of social and personal development of preschool children. The components of social and personal development of preschool children are defined: motivational-emotional, communicative-cognitive, and activity-creative. The personal qualities corresponding to each component are selected as criteria, and the descriptive characteristics of the selected qualities are given. The article presents the results of a psychological study of preschool children and their levels of formation of social and personal qualities (n=197, average age 5.9+0.9 years) who attend the theater studio in the Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren named after N. K. Krupskaya in Chelyabinsk; the children's theater studio of the MOE "SOSH No. 8" in Troitsk; the city House of Culture and art schools No. 1, No. 3 in Troitsk; the children's theater studio in Yuzhnouralsk. The paper considers the components of the criteria of social and personal development in preschool children and the methods of their diagnosis. Psychodiagnostic methods of research were used: the Rosenzweig test (1948), the Leopold and Sonya Bellac children's apperceptive test (SAT-N) (1966). Methods of studying the willpower readiness of the Bourdon test; methods of diagnosing creativity of Gilfrd and Torrens (1962); methods of diagnosing the level of development of an arbitrary sphere by N. I. Gutkina (1981); projective methods of diagnosing the nature of relations by T. D. Mirzinkovskaya (1997). The results of the ascertaining experiment are presented. At the stage of the ascertaining experiment, the results of the study of the levels of social and personal development in preschool children in two groups: those who attend and those who do not attend a theater studio are considered. The analysis of the quantitative results obtained at the stage of the ascertaining experiment is carried out. The results of the formative experiment are presented on the example of four groups: preschoolers did not participate in the activities of the children's theater studio; the activities of the children's theater studio were carried out according to the usual program; in the second experimental group, the design of the activities of the children's theater studio was carried out partially; in the third experimental group, the design of the activities of the children's theater studio was carried out in full. The article considers the dynamics of social and personal development of preschool children in the activities of a children's theater studio using dynamic series through the average indicator, and determines the efficiency coefficient of each method.

Keywords:social and personal development, theater studio, motivational-emotional, communicative-cognitive, activity-creative components, personal qualities of a preschool child.