Educational Dialogue at Elementary School (Educational System “School of Dialogue”)

The article introduces the concept of the innovative educational system “School of Dialogue”, developed by scientists and teachers of the A. I. Herzen RSPU. The system is focused on the formation of a holistic personality, which is achieved through a system-activity approach to the construction of the educational process in all academic disciplines, in the organization of interdisciplinary interaction and allows you to harmoniously combine special (speech, mathematical, literary, technological, musical, etc.) and overall development of students. Training, development and education are organized as a single process, which contributes to the transformation of the information received by schoolchildren into personally significant knowledge. Special attention in the article is paid to the principles of dialogization of learning, on which the learning kit “School of Dialogue” is built. Various interpretations of the concept of “educational dialogue” are considered. Key ideas for organizing a dialogue of participants in the educational process are presented. A general description of various types of dialogue and examples of their implementation in the textbooks “School of Dialogue” are given. The contents of the dialogues “Student ‒ teacher”, “Student ‒ student”, “Student ‒ parents”, “Teacher ‒ parents”, “Student ‒ educational environment”, a dialogue with a textbook, a dialogue with oneself are disclosed. All types of dialogue make it possible to establish connections between educational materials of different subject areas, to see phenomena from different positions, to recognize the possibility of different points of view on solving one problem, to listen and hear the interlocutor, to possess universal educational actions that will help students to live with dignity in today’s rapidly changing multicultural world. Examples illustrating different types of dialogue in different textbooks of the learning kit are given – music, technology, literary reading, Russian language, etc.