Biography of watchmen

Vasily Porfiryevich Vakhters [13 studied at the Nizhny Novgorod Theological Seminary. With G. participated in the activities of the Moscow literacy committee, in the organization of schools for workers and extracurricular institutions. After the report "On universal training" in Gg. In G. was one of the organizers and a participant in the All -Russian Congress on Public Education GG.

After the October Revolution, he conducted methodological work with teachers, taught at the courses of the Likbez; in gg. Based on the evolutionary theory of C. Darwin, Vakhters developed an independent pedagogical concept, which was called the evolutionary "new", "scientific" pedagogy. Its basis was the idea of ​​development, that is, the interpretation of training and education as a progressive movement, combined with the conviction that education in all its types and forms is one of the most important factors of societies, progress “Fundamentals of New Pedagogy”, G.

according to Vakhter, and the formation of the child depends on the internal aspiration for development and the influence of the environment. The task of the teacher is to contribute to a favorable combination of these conditions, to study the individual characteristics of the child. The scientific principle of watchmen put forward as defining in the solution of issues of the content of school education, methods of learning and education.

Justified the independence of pedagogy as science, the originality of the methods of pedagogical research. For comparing the effectiveness of different ones. Wakhters as a theorist and methodologist of primary education followed the general pedagogical ideas of K. The supporter of developing learning, watchmen advocated the renewal and expansion of the content of training in a national school, for active methods that contribute to the development of the child’s independent thinking.

The “Russian primer” by him simultaneously developed a methodological guide for the teacher “at the first stage of training” and created the Council of Ministers.

Wihter reader for class reading "The World in Stories for Children" h. Its educational books were built according to the sound analytical and synthetic method, ensuring the development of the child’s speech and the acquisition of strong spelling skills. Much of Vakhterov’s methodology has not lost its significance to the present. Literature: Korolev F. Vakhters, his life and work, M.

Vakhters and pedagogy of Russia at the beginning of the 20th century. Egorov Source: Russian Pedagogical Encyclopedia: in 2 tt. The library fund has the following publications: publications from the image-catalog of the NPB named after Ushinsky to view the card, click on the small image at the bottom of the publication from the electronic catalog of the NPB named after Ushinsky documents from the Archive of RAO.