The Contribution of M.N. Skatkin to the Advancement of Didactic Ideas about the Developmental Role of Education

Abstract

The article analyzes the research that M.N. Skatkin conducted during the 1950s and early 1960s and describes its contribution to the elabortion of Russian teaching science approaches towards understanding of the developmental role of education.

Notes

English translation © 2016 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, from the Russian text © 2015 “Otechestvennaia i zarubezhnaia pedagogika.” “Vklad M.N. Skatkina v razrabotku didakticheskikh predstavlenii o razvivaiushchei roli obucheniia (50-e–nachalo 60-kh gg XX veka),” Otechestvennaia i zarubezhnaia pedagogika, 2015, no. 4(25), pp. 75–83. Translated by Kenneth Cargill.