Having a baby is half the story. But to educate a person is a completely different conversation. Each parent has its own characteristics of the educational process. It is important that they are consistent with the goals and objectives of teaching and upbringing in the pre-school and school institutions that your child attends. In this case, the needs of the child’s personality will be fully satisfied.
What is parenting?
Each person goes a certain development path. At some points, this development is spontaneous, but often it is organized and ordered. Education as a process of personality formation is a targeted and systematic impact on the spiritual and physical development of a person. This process is carried out through training, education and the organization of human life.
Parenting components
The process of raising a child is very complicated. That is why many authorities take part in this process: the personality itself, its environment, family, state educational institutions, educational institutions, the media, as well as development centers.
Features of the educational process
Like any process in the education of a child, education has its own characteristics, which distinguish this process from others:
- Purposefulness. Provided by unity of purpose. The greatest effect of education is achieved when the child understands what they want from him, and the goal of education is close to him.
- Multifactor. The unity of subjective (needs of the individual) and objective (external conditions of development) factors.
- Hidden results. Achievements as they are brought up are not as obvious as from learning. Brought up qualities can also manifest themselves in adulthood. At the same time, as a result of learning a skill, it is immediately visible.
- Duration Raising a child is not one day. Usually this process takes a person’s entire life. First, he is subject to educational influence on the part of adults, and then he is engaged in self-education.
- Continuity. To achieve a specific goal requires a systematic and continuous work. Periodic education (from case to case) does not bear any fruit. After all, individuals must begin to develop any habits every time. And since they are not supported by constant use, then their consolidation in the mind does not occur.
- Complexity The whole process of educational influence should be subject to one goal. A unity of goals, objectives, methods and techniques should be implemented. It is important to have a comprehensive impact on the personality (from all sides), since personality qualities are not formed alternately, but all at once: some to a greater extent, some to a lesser extent.
- Variability and uncertainty of results. In the same external conditions of education, the results obtained in children may be different.
- Two-sidedness. There is a direct connection between the educational process (from the teacher to the child) and feedback (from the child to the teacher). For the most productive education, it is feedback that plays an important role.
- Dialecticism. It implies continuous development, dynamism, mobility and variability of the educational process. Dialectics also indicates the presence of internal and external contradictions in the educational process. Some can serve as an impetus to development, while others, on the contrary, can slow it down.
The target structure of education
Education from the point of view of the target criterion implies the fulfillment of a certain series of sequential tasks. The purpose of the educational process at school is aimed at:
- comprehensive and harmonious development of the personality, as well as its holistic formation;
- the formation and development of moral and moral qualities;
- enrichment of knowledge in the fields of science, culture and art;
- nurturing a life position taking into account the democratic orientation of society, human rights and obligations;
- the formation of the inclinations and desires of the individual, taking into account his capabilities, as well as social requirements;
- the development of cognitive activity, forming consciousness and professional orientation;
- organization of activities capable of raising the necessary personality traits;
- development of communication as an independent component of personality education.
The sequence of education
There are a number of stages of the educational process through which it must go in order to solve all the tasks.
- The first stage is the mastery of knowledge of norms. It implies the mastery of the pupil of the norms and rules of behavior. The formation of personality behavior as a whole depends on this. In some educational systems, this moment is overlooked or considered that it is not so important for the formation of personality. However, this is fundamentally wrong. It is the behavior that determines the further upbringing of the child. The pre-revolutionary school was based on a quick correction of behavior through the use of corporal punishment. The post-revolutionary school relies on verbal methods for shaping the behavior of pupils.
- The second stage is the formation of beliefs. The acquired knowledge about the norms and rules of behavior should develop into beliefs (understanding that one cannot behave differently). Correctly formed beliefs in childhood become the basis for further existence in society. Without these firmly established postulates, the process of education will have a weak and shaky character.
- The third stage is the formation of feelings. Human emotions are the human search for truth. Pupils perceive information through a string of feelings. Teachers skillfully varying them can achieve the desired result.
The fundamental point relating to all of the above stages and permeating them is activity. The implementation of the tasks of each stage is possible only through activity. The more time is devoted to purposeful well-organized activities, the greater the effect will be obtained from education.
The relationship and dependence of the components of education
A feature of the educational process is also considered the relationship between its components. It looks like this:
- planning the educational process and determining goals and tasks that need to be addressed;
- providing various activities that contribute to the upbringing of the child (material: labor, environmental; social: organizational and managerial, communicative, collective; spiritual: emotional, sensual, value-orientating, cognitive);
- control and management of interpersonal communication in the course of various activities;
- summing up, analysis of completed tasks, development of a correction plan if necessary.
The sequence of pedagogical actions
The peculiarities of the educational process include a certain sequence of actions of the teacher to form the personality of the pupil. This sequence is presented in the following form:
- acquaintance with general norms and requirements (communication to children of generally accepted norms and rules of behavior);
- the formation of relationships (the formation of a child’s personal attitude to the need to comply with certain rules and norms);
- the development of attitudes and beliefs (the creation of situations that contribute to strengthening relations and their transition into beliefs);
- the creation of a general orientation of the personality (the development of one's own sustainable behavior and habits that will pass over time into character traits that form the personality as a whole).
Happy parents - happy children
Since the family is very important in the formation and development of the child’s personality, much attention is paid to this issue in the upbringing process.
The formation of certain habits in children in educational institutions should coincide and be reinforced by the family and at home. The contradictions between these two institutions of socialization negate the entire educational process.
Modern parents are ready to pay any money to correct errors in the behavior of their child. Fathers and mothers are ready to do a lot for a comprehensive and harmonious development. However, they forget that it is the parents who instill the initial norms and rules of behavior. Indeed, you must admit that it is much easier not to make a mistake than to try to fix it later.
Sometimes parents cannot understand why kindergarten, circles, sections, development centers, psychologists and psychotherapists cannot help their child. And all because the results achieved in the lesson are not supported at home. For example, a child in a kindergarten is taught to respect the elders, and at the same time at home he sees his mother curse and shout at her grandmother. It’s not in vain that they say: “Happy parents are happy children.” They all adopt from adults and parents act as the first visual aid.
The role of the family in education
The word "upbringing" has long been associated with the word "family." The function of the family in the field of education lies in the spiritual reproduction of the population. Parenting in the family, as well as in a preschool, is bilateral in nature, as not only children are brought up, but also parents. It is customary to distinguish three aspects of the educational function of the family :
- impact on the personality of the child, on the harmonious and comprehensive development of his abilities;
- the educational impact of the family team on each family member throughout his life;
- the influence of children on parents, pushing him to self-education.
One wise man said that a child needs less money and more attention. It is difficult to disagree with him, because children are a blank sheet that reflects everything that surrounds him.