Explains the developmental pathways of the School Development Program: physical, psychoemotional, social-interactive, speech/language, cognitive-intellectual, and moral-ethical. Describes its principles, including identification, imitation, internalization, interpersonal relationships, language mediation, and recognition that all children can…

Today's students are more comfortable with and skilled at discovering and developing information in a different verbal and visual text than that commonly found in the classroom dominated by written texts and conversation. This gap between the verbal and visual environments has implications for the teaching of reasoning skills: literacy in one…

Presents an interesting example of Russian pedagogical thought. Personality-oriented instruction generally refers to cognitive style. Attempts a broad classification of objectives and procedures for this type of instruction. Includes many references and terminology from Russian pedagogy (for example, psychodidactics, social-pedagogical model,…