Shiyan I.B. A method for diagnostic of dialectical thinking among preschoolers
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Abstract
The author proposes method called “Dialectic Stories” that focuses primarily on work with preschoolers. The method consists of nine tasks. Each of them includes two to six images using which the subject has to make up a story, or continue the story begun by the experimenter. Characters of the stories are well-known heroes of fairy tales and cartoons.
The method helps to evaluate different dialectic mental actions. Fulfillment of first and second tasks involve usage of dialectical mental action “convertion”; third and fourth tasks – of the dialectical mental action “mediation”; fifth and sixth tasks – of the dialectical mental action “integration”; seventh and eighth tasks – of the dialectical mental action “closing”; ninth task - of the dialectical mental action “change of alternative”.