Techniques for Developing Intellectual Activity in School Children

Abstract

In the teaching process, formation in the school child of techniques of intellectual activity, has an important place. Mastering these techniques means learning (with the teacher's help), how to carry new tasks in theory or practice through to a solution, that is, to apply knowledge to new situations, Developing techniques is the crystallization or generalization of knowledge about how to solve a particular problem, and skill in applying these methods to school work. One method, necessary to master a given discipline, is special; another may be common to different subjects. The first, for example, applies to the independent determination of the right and left bank of a river (in geography), or the independent analysis of a drawing, etc. (in geometry). These techniques allow students to use material in a given discipline, taking its peculiarities into account, to acquire a fund of knowledge, and understanding in conformity with general law. Development of these techniques has basic significance for the activization of pupils' intellectual activity.