PEDAGOGICAL CONDITIONS FOR DEVELOPING INTELLECTUAL ACTIVITY IN YOUNGER SCHOOLCHILDREN WHILE TEACHING THE GAME OF CHESS: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS

The article problematizes the development of intellectual elite as a guiding genesis of society and culture, the idea that chess school in the system of additional education is focused on the development of personality giftedness in extracurricular educational environment and is a structure called to create pedagogical conditions of support and accompaniment of development of creative abilities, stimulation of intellectual activity of the young schoolchildren according to the requirements of the chess game is substantiated. The authors analyze the ideas allowing to identify the theoretical and methodological foundations of the main concept of research — "intellectual activity" and related concepts; different contexts of the problem of intellectual activity in the process of learning chess playing are shown; the experience in teaching chess playing to junior schoolchildren is summarized and described; the pedagogical conditions of stimulating intellectual activity of junior schoolchildren in the practice of chess education are revealed. It is proved that the pedagogical conditions of development of intellectual activity of the junior schoolchildren while teaching them chess are the following: the establishment of the relations of collaboration and co-creativity in the pedagogical interaction; organization of classes taking into account the specificity of age with the use of fairy-tale plots, games, elements of dramatization in the context of creating the situation of success for everybody; realization of the developing strategy in teaching chess playing, which assumes forming theoretical thinking, mastering generalized ways of playing chess in the junior schoolchildren.