On September 9, 2009, at the Faculty of Psychology and Pedagogy of Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University (since May 24, 2011 – Kryvyi Rih National University), the Department of Preschool Education was formed by separating from the Department of Theory and Practice of Preschool Education and Primary Education for the training of specialists in preschool education. In 2014, the department was merged with the Faculty of Technology and Pedagogy, which led to the reorganization and renaming of the faculty to Preschool and Technological Education.

Since its founding, the department has been headed by Dr. O. V. Kovshar, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor.

In 2018, for the first time in the Kryvyi Rih region, the educational and pedagogical program “Speech Therapy” was introduced for the first (bachelor's) level of higher education in the specialty 016 Special Education. It trains applicants for a bachelor's degree in higher education, and in 2022, a master's program will open in the same specialty.

In February 2024, the department was renamed to Preschool and Special Education. Now, the department offers bachelor's and master's degrees in two specialties.

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Priority areas of activity of the department:

- scientific work (research, management of students' scientific work);

- teaching work (preparation of educational professional, work programs, development of curriculum, writing training and teaching aids, lectures, guidance, development of electronic applications in the management e-Learning University;

- organizing practices;

- educational and vocational work (conducting educational talks, meetings with leading educators, scientists, trainings, workshops, visits to museums, exhibitions, theaters).

Academic staff of the department constantly improve their skills through participation in conferences, seminars, symposia. Internships as a purposeful continuous growth of the pedagogical competence of the academic staff of the department are carried out both in Ukrainian and in foreign universities.

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	Kovshar Olena ‒ Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Head of the Department.
	Inshakov Artur ‒ Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor.
	Suiatynova Kateryna ‒ Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor.
	Inshakova Inna ‒ Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor.
	Boiko Svitlana ‒ Assistant.
	Kurienkova Anna‒ Doctor of Philosophy, Senior Lecturer.
	Sidenko Yuliia ‒ Doctor of Philosophy, Senior Lecturer.
	Shtepa Lyudmyla ‒ Assistant.Tsaplyuk Oleksandr
	Tsaplyuk Oleksandr ‒ Assistant.
	Drevnyak Lada ‒ Assistant.
	Kotsman Maryna ‒ Senior Laboratory Assistant

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