DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE IN CHILDREN OF PRIMARY SCHOOL AGE IN THE CONDITIONS OF LEARNING ACTIVITY

Abstract

The article is devoted to the actual problem of modern education - socially oriented focus of the educational process. The publication substantiates the scientific and practical significance of the problem of development of the social sphere of the individual. The article examines approaches to understanding the concept of social intelligence in general, are given some scientists point of view on the nature of social intelligence which explain this social phenomenon as the adaptation of the individual to social life. In particular, the analysis of the structure of intelligence by H. Eysenck, J. Guildford, R. Sternberg, A. Savenkov, N. Kunitsyna was carried out. The article analyses the psychological features of primary school age as a sensitive period of ontogenesis for the development of social intelligence. The main prerequisites for the development of social intelligence in primary school age are identified. The necessity and possibilities of development of social intelligence in educational activity of schoolchildren are found out. The main functions of social intelligence in primary school age are examined (cognitive-evaluative, communicative-value, corrective - reflexive). It was concluded that the development of social intelligence is an urgent and submitted problem in modern education.