Applying Psycho-Technical Fairy Tale To Develop Child s Logical Thin

This paper describes the result of application of psycho-technical fairy tale as a method of transferring knowledge of the main laws of logic and forming a child’s abilities of independent logical thinking. The psycho-technical fairy tale specially developed for the research purposes was used in the child’s (a girl, 10 years old) informal educational process. We tested this new approach to child’s developing logical thinking and analyzed the results by means of ideographic method appropriate for investigating individual case. Our hypothesis was the following: the psycho-technical fairy tale used for transferring knowledge of the main laws of logic can significantly contribute to developing the child’s abilities and motivation for logical thinking. The research hypothesis was confirmed. After reading a psycho-technical fairy tale, the child began to regularly focus attention on the logical mistakes in the discourse with adults and peers. The research results will be useful for teachers, psychologists, philosophers to conduct experimental research in order to get nomothetic knowledge about general regularities of developing children’s logical thinking. Besides, the research results can be used as an additional methodological instrument in the developmental activities with children