The Development of Dialectical Thinking: The Role of Structure and Organization in the Child’s Daily Life in Preschool Childhood

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The research proposes an analytical description of dialectical thinking according to the structural-dialectical approach, based on philosophical foundations and a conceptual psychological apparatus that allows us to assess the development of this form of thinking in children and adults. The grounds for identifying dialectics as a special form of thinking were defined in philosophy (Aristotle, Pseudo-Dionysius, N. Kuzansky, L.-M. Deschamps, F.V.Y. Schelling, G.W.F. Hegel, etc.). Dialectical thinking is presented as a system of particular mental actions designed to solve problems of a specific type - containing work with relations of opposition, both within content and structural. The sensitive period for the beginning of the formation of dialectical thinking is the preschool period. The sensitive period for the beginning of the formation of dialectical thinking is the preschool period. In this study, the task was set to identify the connections between parents’ ideas about the degree of organization and structure of everyday life, which we consider as a form of a normative situation and a space for the development of children’s dialectical thinking in a longitudinal study. New data confirm the hypothesis put forward and are consistent with previously discovered facts of heterochronicity in the development of dialectical thinking actions in 5-9 year old children.

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Nikolay E. Veraksa

Lomonosov Moscow State University; Federal Scientific Center for Psychological and Multidisciplinary Research

Author for correspondence.
Email: neveraksa@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3752-7319
SPIN-code: 9770-0787

DSc in Psychology, Professor of Department of Educational Psychology and Pedagogy, Lomonosov Moscow State University

11/9 Mokhovaya St., Moscow, 125009, Russian Federation; 9/4 Mokhovaya St., Moscow, 125009, Russian Federation

Aleksander N. Veraksa

Lomonosov Moscow State University; Federal Scientific Center for Psychological and Multidisciplinary Research

Email: veraksa@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7187-6080
SPIN-code: 9953-2754

DSc in Psychology, Academician of the Russian Academy of Education, Professor, Head of the Department of Educational Psychology and Pedagogy, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Deputy Director, Federal Scientific Centre of Psychological and Multidisciplinary Research

11/9 Mokhovaya St., Moscow, 125009, Russian Federation; 9/4 Mokhovaya St., Moscow, 125009, Russian Federation

Zlata V. Airapetyan

Lomonosov Moscow State University

Email: zlata.a.v@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4466-9799

Junior researcher, Faculty of Psychology, Department of Educational Psychology and Pedagogics

11/9 Mokhovaya St., Moscow, 125009, Russian Federation

Evgeni E. Krasheninnikov

Lomonosov Moscow State University; Federal Scientific Center for Psychological and Multidisciplinary Research

Email: eekrashen@narod.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0910-0297
SPIN-code: 5114-4131

CSc in Psychology, Psychologist of the Department of Psychology of Education and Pedagogy, Faculty of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Senior Researcher at the Laboratory of Childhood and Digital Socialization, Federal Scientific Center for Psychological and Interdisciplinary Research

11/9 Mokhovaya St., Moscow, 125009, Russian Federation; 9/4 Mokhovaya St., Moscow, 125009, Russian Federation

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