Mental development and self-development of a preschool child. Middle and distant horizons

The book in a popular science form represents a holistic system of modern scientific ideas about preschool childhood formed on the basis of domestic psychological research over the past fifty years. The author of the book, N.N. Poddyakov is an academician of RAO, an outstanding Russian psychologist of preschool childhood, director of the Research Institute of Preschool Education of the APN of the USSR (1980–1992) The combination of fundamentalness, careful scientific validity of copyright theses and surprise, the paradox of many conclusions makes this book interesting not only to preschool teachers and psychologists, but also to everyone who is important to understand the key patterns in human education. N.N. Poddyakov fundamentally in a new way, it covers the issues of the child’s experimental and game activity, reveals the mechanisms of research behavior of the preschooler, explores the ratio of “clear” and “obscure” knowledge, “neighboring” and “distant” horizons of children"s development.
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