Development of Ability of Pre-school Children to Reflect Possible Relations.

Dialectical thinking is a mechanism of handling with oppositions and appears as a mechanism of construction of possible relations. Implementation of dialectical mental actions allows us conceiving possible relations, basing on the relations of reality. The purpose of current research was to examine the hypothesis that systematical discussion on problematic controversial situations with pre-school children contributes to development of their dialectical thinking and, therefore, the ability to anticipate possible relations. Forming experiment has been conducted for 2 years and consisted in the following: 5 year old children (as for the moment when experiment begun) participated in 3 weekly classes where they faced problematic controversial situations and solved them while joint activity. A scheme was used as a mean of acquirement of dialectical relations. The experiment resulted in the fact that the hypothesis of a possibility of purposeful formation of dialectical thinking at preschool age has been confirmed. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creati voconi rnons.org/Iiconses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).