QUALITIES FACILITATING THE EVALUATION OF CRITICAL THINKING AMONG YOUNGER SCHOOL CHILDREN

The educational and training system can cultivate critical thinking skills of the younger generation and/or foster the formation of appropriate habits. However, an individual’s ability to use critical thinking – i.e. to actualize or utilize those habits in daily life – ultimately depends on the prevailing social context and soci-etal attitudes toward critical thinking. Therefore, the development of critical thinking of the younger gen-eration depends primarily on the democratic social conditions which are necessary for the realization of critical thinking or the social demand for critical thinking. The development of critical thinking is conditioned by the categories of education, development, and upbringing existence in the education system. The existence of social development conditions created through the educational process can be very successful for the development of critical thinking of school-children. We consider that interactive environments can be much more reasonable for the development of critical thinking.