Педагогика развития и сотрудничества

The article presents the result of studying psychological and pragmatic aspects of speech therapist’s interaction with parents of preschool and primary school children, depending on their active/ passive participation in the correction of speech deviations. It studies the interdependence between the degree of parents’ activity and various factors, e.g. level of their education, social status, severity of speech deviation of a child. Special attention is given to models for building communication in situations of socialization between speech therapists and parents.

The study presents the results of comparative analysis of the signand symbol-based mediation in academic activity, based on the theoretical data and author’s investigations. It is shown that the role of symbol and sign is not the same at different stages of learning. Sign- and symbol-based mediations are equally ineffective at the primary stage of learning at school. Symbolic generalization in thinking is formed by the end of junior school age, it reaches its climax by the 6th – 8th form. At high school students can utilize both types of mediation with equal success.

The article covers results of the empirical analysis of the system of leading mental functions at preschool age. The methodological foundation of the study is functional stage periodization of ontogenetic development (Yu.N. Karandashev, 1981). The study presents the description of the system of interconnections of the major mental functions at preschool age, as well as the dynamics of development of the major mental functions during the age under study.

The article makes an attempt of analyzing and contemplating about scientific, research, and project activity of students as the major ways of activation of students’ cognitive independence. It resents characteristics of the stages of scientific, research, and project activities of students and offers practical recommendations for their organization and fulfillment for university instructors. The study gives examples of specific topics for students’ research and project works.

The article presents results of the study regarding creative activity of students and factors of its dependency. Creative activity is understood as a personal state, which is characterized by the desire to acquire new knowledge and ways of activity, intellectual tension, and demonstration of willful efforts in the process of this kind of activity.

The article covers results of theoretical and empirical research regarding training of a future primary school teacher from the positions of acmeological approach. The study uncovers the structural organization of acmeological orientations of a future teacher’s personality: professional and value orientations, professional goal setting, professional motivation, desire to achieve professional success. It defines level characteristics and types of pedagogical orientations (mono-orientation, poly-orientation).

In the theory and practice of teaching primary school students great deal of attention is paid to the issue of training effectiveness and, in particular, to the issue of cognitive activity’s activation in students. The relevance of this topic can be explained by the fact that introduction of the Federal State Educational Standards of primary general education requires the teacher to know the new forms and methods of educational process organization, which could be feasible and effective in the modern conditions and interesting for children.

The author presents the results of component analysis of professional training for future teachers. We analyze the component structure of professional training for teachers based on interdisciplinary research that allows to identify target, motivational, informative, operational and resultative components. Analysis and systematization of the collected material show the relation between components of professional training and emphasize the main feature of professional training for future teachers, which is integrity.

The authors present results of the study based on the analysis of tutoring emergence in Russia, its modernization process and implementation of individualization process and pedagogical support processes as a basis for tutoring activities. We analyze the content basis of the ?tutor? phenomenon in national and foreign science.

The authors present modern methodological approaches to the problems of development of younger generation’s social activity. We demonstrate the results of general analysis of scientific research during the last decade, which are connected to tendencies of children movement’s development, process of its modernization, and implementation of the principle of children’s participation in solving the problems that affect their interests.