The Development of Dialectical Thinking: The Role of Structure and Organization in the Child’s Daily Life in Preschool Childhood

The research proposes an analytical description of dialectical thinking according to the structural-dialectical approach, based on philosophical foundations and a conceptual psychological apparatus that allows us to assess the development of this form of thinking in children and adults. The grounds for identifying dialectics as a special form of thinking were defined in philosophy (Aristotle, Pseudo-Dionysius, N. Kuzansky, L.-M. Deschamps, F.V.Y. Schelling, G.W.F. Hegel, etc.). Dialectical thinking is presented as a system of particular mental actions designed to solve problems of a specific type - containing work with relations of opposition, both within content and structural. The sensitive period for the beginning of the formation of dialectical thinking is the preschool period. The sensitive period for the beginning of the formation of dialectical thinking is the preschool period. In this study, the task was set to identify the connections between parents’ ideas about the degree of organization and structure of everyday life, which we consider as a form of a normative situation and a space for the development of children’s dialectical thinking in a longitudinal study. New data confirm the hypothesis put forward and are consistent with previously discovered facts of heterochronicity in the development of dialectical thinking actions in 5-9 year old children.