On the 07/08 of October 2010 all-Ukrainian scientific and practical conference “The priorities of the new personality-oriented paradigm of preschool education” took place at the Department of Preschool Education of the Child Development Institute. Over 100 participants took part in the work of the conference, including outstanding scientists and educators of Ukraine, representatives of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, Local Educational Authorities, state and public organizations, lecturers of the Preschool Education Chair of Higher Education Institutions of Ukraine, postgraduate and graduate students.

Conference partners became leading Research Institutions of Ukraine and Higher Educational Institutions (Institute of Teacher Training and Adult Education at the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, Cherkasy National Bohdan Khmelnytskyi University, Kyiv Boris Grinchenko University, Kirovograd State Volodymyr Vunnychenko University, Berdyansk State Pedagogical University, Republican institution of higher education “Crimean University of the Humanities” (Yalta), Volyn National University.

The aim of the conference was to exchange the scientific research experience, the experience of organization and scientific and practical activities in the functioning of Preschool Education Establishments, the socio-pedagogical support of preschool personality development nowadays. The conference program was rich and exciting. It included public speech of leading specialists of preschool education in Ukraine (Prof. V. G.Kuz, Prof. L. B. Lukyanova, Doctor of Science I. P. Rogalska), the presentation of the their researches results (I. O. Shishova, L. I .Zaitseva, A. M. Zaliznyak, S. M. Gavrilyuk).

Visiting the Research laboratories of the University was the important part of the conference, as the participants were familiar with innovative approaches in teachers and students scientific researches organization university.