Aktīvā skola XX gadsimta 20. gados: Ādolfa Ferjēra devums

Abstract

Each generation has its own significant contribution, Adolf Ferrier (1879–1960) and his contemporaries, prominent personalities have left the influence on teaching-learning process. The issues of individualized learning, how to work with gifted students, how to organize project work are still relevant, so the article pays in-depth attention to these three aspects. The purpose of this article is to update the ideas and tasks of the active school, which gained wide international recognition in the 1920s of XX century. Generations are formed, firstly, by educational beliefs and, secondly, by technologies that influence attitudes, perceptions, as well as collaborative skills and lead to find a suitable form of communication. Understanding of different personality types provides clarity, allows to accept different attitudes, behaviours, helps to improve communication and mutual understanding, provides the opportunity to apply appropriate learning content with the opportunity to express their talents, develop strengths and work on weaknesses. An active school promotes to go deeper, to see the potential of student, setting a specific goal at work, creates a habit of proper work performance, demands the completion of the work started, leading to the result. A retrospective view of history gives impetus to the methods for creative learning content, calling for the unconscious to be made conscious, emphasizing the importance of forming habits.