THE VERBAL CREATIVITY OF PRESCHOOLERS AS A PEDAGOGICAL PROBLEM

The article has considered and analyzed psychological and pedagogical approaches to the problem of children’s creativity, especially children of preschool age. We have shown the views of scientists on the concept of “verbal creativity of preschool children”, which is understood as a twofold process of accumulation of impressions in the process of pedagogical activity and their creative processing into the language of verbal signs. Psychological and pedagogical principles of verbal creativity of preschool children have been revealed. The author of the article has highlighted pedagogical conditions for the development of children’s verbal creativity.The purpose of the study is to conduct a theoretical analysis of psychological and pedagogical research on the problem of verbal creativity of preschool children and to identify pedagogical conditions for its development. Research methods – theoretical analysis of the literature on psychology, pedagogy, comparison and classification of materials on the research problem, method of theoretical constructions.Based on theoretical analysis, it has been established that for active and successful participation of preschool children in verbal creativity children have to require a psychological platform in the form of developed imagination, creative thinking, figurative perception, speech in all its aspects. The structure of the process of development of verbal creativity in preschool childhood includes three stages: preparatory (accumulation of experience), the actual process of verbal creativity and the final (analysis of the results).The implementation of pedagogical conditions for the development of verbal creativity of preschoolers requires more careful consideration of the problem of preparing a specialist for the development of verbal creativity of children, which we have seen as prospects for further research. Keywords: creativity; children’s creativity; verbal creativity; speech development; artistic perception; poetic hearing; preschooler; conditions for the development of verbal creativity.