The Structure of Reflective Development of a Person in the Age Dynamics as the Basis of Psycho-pedagogical Design
The main purpose of this article is to construct and justify a working hypothesis of the structure of the “reflection” concept in the age dynamics of human development. This is the foundation for understanding the content of developmental education and the creation of new modern educational technologies. The main task is developing a theoretical construct of the research object – the structure of reflective human development in the age dynamics. The main criteria are the logic and results of studies by leading psychologists, educators, philosophers. The first step for us is experimentally proven framework of the reflective development in middle childhood of V.I. Slobodchikov and G.A. Zuckerman, named as “defining reflection”. We build such structures for other ages: teen, youth, student age, as forerunners of adulthood. We use the established structure of the reflective development in student's age is used in experiments during developmental education teachers’ training in elementary school, which may be useful also for other psychological and pedagogical development practices.