The Concept of Developmental Teaching

Abstract

Both theoreticians and educational practitioners have been devoting increasing attention in the past few years to the problems of developmental teaching. Some major scientific works have been devoted to these problems, which are being tackled in various special textbooks and methodological manuals. The Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation is preparing and publishing special programs on developmental teaching [42]. All these efforts are evidence that the problems of the intellectual, moral, and physical development of schoolchildren are becoming very urgent in our education—moreover, one of the principles of reform of contemporary school education is that authentic developmental teaching be put to ample use (see, for example [20. Pp. 159-160], etc.).