The Day of Preschool Workers is celebrated annually on September 27. Today, we are congratulating the teaching staff, graduates, and students of the Faculty of Psychological, Pedagogical, and Special Needs Education and the Department of Preschool and Primary Education, Balashov Institute, SSU.

It is at Saratov State University where we teach people who associate their lives with a difficult and responsible mission – to work with children at their very first stage in social and psychological development.

For more than 25 years, preschool workers and heads of nursery schools have been graduating from SSU. The Faculty of Psychological, Pedagogical, and Special Needs Education provides not only the bachelor's degree course in preschool education, but also the master's degree course in the management of preschool education. It is unlikely to find a nursery school in Saratov Region where at least one graduate of the faculty works.

In honour of the professional holiday, we have prepared an interview with Associate Professor of the Department of Educational Methodology Lyubov Gorina, Loving Children is Vocation!, in the Research City section. She commented on the reasons of preschool workers’ high authority in the society. Also, you will find out what SSU does to train preschool workers, what is the difference between working in in nursery and primary schools. Read the full text of the interview here.