Pedological ideas of Stefan Baley and ways of practical implementation of them into the Ukrainian educational process

Abstract

The article presents the general information about pedology development in the world and in the Eastern Europe as well. In this context, pedological ideas of the famous researcher, pedologist, psychologist Stefan Baley are presented. The article gives brief information about biography of the scientist and his conceptual ideas of pedology and educational psychology. The explanation of the term pedology according to Stefan Baley is given in the article as well as his researches of the physiological and psychological development of a child. The article present the famous table of age child psyche development compiled by the scientist. The article presents the research, conducted by S. Baley concerning the educational in uence on children by di erent kinds of surrounding things, such as: book, lm, animals, plants, radio etc. The educational role of family is mentioned in the article as well as the in uence of a child origin on the psychological development and educational process is presented in the article. One of the main idea of the article is to propose ways and methods of the usage of Stefan Baleys' pedological ideas in the modern educational process. His ideas can be used mainly in schools, since he emphasized a lot on the educational processes in this institution. His ideas can solve di erent modern problems which faces modern society. For example, existence of so called "death groups" in Ukraine which a ected children and teenagers between 12 to 17 y.o. They were spread through social networks, such as Vkontakte and their aim was to bring to suicide children and they should lm the process. The article propose to use Stefan Baleys' ideas in the educational process in school, since he did a lot of researches concerning methodology of syllabus compilation, attention of pupils, tiredness, methods of evaluation, teacher's behavior, processes of a child socialization. The article presents his great idea concerning introducing psychologists in schools and increasing their role in child's education and learning as well as teaching them.