Научная и педагогическая деятельность Г.С. Меркина

Abstract

The study aims at identifying the main issues that determine the direction of scientific and pedagogical activity of the honored teacher of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Education, Professor, author of books on literary reading for grades 1–4 and literature for grades 5–9, Gennady Samuylovich Merkin. While gaining this goal, we have carried out the theoretical analysis of G.S. Merkin’s works on the issue of co-creation within the in-class and extracurricular activities on literature, the methodological apparatus of textbooks on literary reading and literature, and have come to the following conclusions. The key issue of G.S. Merkin’s scientific and pedagogical activity is the co-creation as one of the shortest ways to achieve the goal of developing and improving the intellectual abilities of students and as a complex systemic phenomenon in which the interaction of the writer and the reader-pupil is carried out. Realization of the ideas of co-creation in the process of developing the concept of a modern textbook on literature con- tributes to the implementation of an active, cultural, practice-oriented and personality-oriented approach to the study of literature, implying not the assimilation of a certain amount of knowledge by students, but the development of their personality, communication and creative abilities. The innovative approach to teaching literature in the co-creation mode provides for the set- ting of non-traditional tasks and the choice of a non-standard philological and methodological solution, which involves establishing links where they are not obvious. Professionalism of the literature teacher is the most important condition for the successful implementation of the ideas of co-creation within the in-class and extracurricular activities.