I. YAKOVLEV CHUVASH STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

extracurricular education of children, practical reason, personal education, personified financing, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

Basing on the ideas of A. Asmolov, the Russian theorist of pedagogy, the author approaches the study of the system of extracurricular education of children as a mechanism for the development of practical reason in three directions: mastering the skills of technical thinking; mastering the intercultural competences; developing creative thinking and creative abilities at children. Analyzing the process of education as a mechanism of reproduction and succession of generations by means of relevant information transfer methods, the author concludes that in the Soviet, then in the Russian system, there has been a rather lame determination of the levels and types of education: preschool, additional, postgraduate, etc. The determination of these levels is based on the organizational criterion: school-centered and university-centered approach to the educational process. According to the author, one should proceed from an understanding of the continuity of a person’s education and achievements of at various stages throughout his or her life. Extracurricular education of children is based on the principle of non-formalization of education [5], which opens up new opportunities in the context of training, paying more attention to practical competences, cultivating various skills.

кандидат педагогических наук, директор Дворца детского творчества им. Ф. И. Авдеевой, г. Якутск, Россия; e-mail: petrovamp@bk.ru