ACTUAL PROBLEMS OF SCHOOL FAILURE IN THE SCIENTIFIC AND JOURNALISTIC CREATIVITY OF P.P. BLONSKY

Abstract

The article presents an analysis of the most significant journalistic works by P.P. Blonsky, a prominent domestic teacher and psychologist of the 20–30s of the twentieth century, devoted to one of the key problems of learning – school failure, which was considered by him exclusively in the context of continuity and development of progressive pedagogical ideas of the past based on knowledge of the laws of mental, primarily mental development of the child. In the analyzed journalistic publications, which published the works of P.P. Blonsky, the innovative component of his ideas regarding the organization of the educational process, the need not only for training, but also for the education of the child’s mind, which ensures the full development of the student, is shown. The enduring importance of the issues of overcoming and preventing school failure considered by P.P. Blonsky, based on a solid psychological basis, is emphasized.