CULTURE OF SAFE BEHAVIOR IN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN AS A PEDAGOGICAL PROBLEM

The need to introduce children to generally accepted norms and rules of relationships with peers and adults (in society), to develop skills of reasonable behavior in everyday life and nature, is noted in the Federal Educational Program of PE, which has come into force in September 2023. Preschool childhood is considered one of the most important periods in the formation of a fully developed personality. It is at this level of formation of the future citizen that the foundations of intellectual, moral, physical development are laid, and familiarization with universal human values and culture occurs. The most important acquisition of preschool age is the ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment and appropriate behavior that ensures a safe existence in this environment. The combination of the regulatory framework (FSES DO and FOP DO), which regulates the formation of children’s ideas about life safety and rules of behavior and the age characteristics of preschoolers, allowing them to master these ideas, ensures the need and opportunity to cultivate a culture of safe behavior in children of this age. Preschool teachers must create conditions for nurturing in children an interest in household appliances and household items, and the rules for their use; understanding and observing the rules of safe behavior at home, on the street, in nature. Based on the foregoing, it can be argued that fostering a culture of safe behavior is considered a priority task for society, the state, in general, and for the preschool education system, in particular. The article makes an attempt to highlight the theoretical issues of such an important pedagogical problem as fostering a culture of safe behavior in preschool children.