New Perspectives in Science Education

In the spring of 2020, educational organizations of all types and stages switched to a remote learning format in the Russian Federation. This alternative training solution was one of the measures to prevent the spread of  coronavirus (COVID-19). The system of pre-school education also had to change the format of its activities. The role of parents in the education and upbringing of preschoolers has always been high, but in isolation the degree of influence of parents on the effectiveness of the learning process and the quality of its result has significantly increased. Pre-school educational organizations had to organize online work with children and parents in a relatively short time. To understand how parents were able to learn new functions related to their children's online learning, upbringing and leisure activities. It should be noted that not all preschool educational organizations actively used remote educational technologies in their work before the coronavirus pandemic. Therefore, in many preschool educational organizations for the first time began to form a system of distance learning, built on a different model of interaction "parent-parent," "parent-child," "child-teacher", where the parent is an active subject of education of his own child. Our study was conducted to understand the attitude of parents of preschoolers to the distance learning of their children during the pandemic of coronavirus (COVID-19) and how much, they are ready to accept distance learning as a component of pre-school education in normal conditions of its functioning. Two thousand two hundred and fifty parents of preschoolers from eleven preschool educational institutions in Rostov-on-Don took part in an anonymous online survey.  Respondents at the time of the survey had two months of experience incorporating themselves and their children into remote pre-school education in the current epidemiological environment. Analysis of the results of the study has made it possible to improve the system of distance learning of preschoolers, which can be actively used in the operation of preschool educational organization under normal conditions.

Keywords: distance learning, preschool education.