THE CASE STUDY IN "MAN AND NATURE" EDUCATION IN THE PRIMARY SCHOOL - A METHOD FOR DEVELOPING STUDENTS' NON-STANDARDITY

Abstract

Abnormality tempts all participants in the educational process - teachers, students, parents, and society. The manifestation of non-standard in the educational discourse is an increasingly discussed and prioritized task. In the dynamics of modern everyday life, the pedagogue faces the difficult but important task of showing creativity, looking for holistic methods, the application of which in daily work with students leads not only to factual accumulation of information (be it in the form of knowledge), but to provokes students to new, atypical ways of solving problems (both academically and in life).
That is why the development of non-standardity, viewed through the prism of modern educational paradigms, in the light of person-oriented learning, should be interpreted as a catalyst for changes developing the subjectivity of students.
Within the framework of this article, the case study is considered as a method for developing non-standardization in the teaching of "Man and Progeny" in the initial stage.
Case studies, understood as part of the problem-situational methods, can effectively not only form the knowledge, skills and attitudes embedded in the educational content, but also upgrade the individual key competencies, as well as the soft skills of the students (including non-standardization) already in primary school age.
In the present work, the advantages of learning through the case method are shown, separate classifications of the cases in the learning process are fixed, an algorithm for the effective application of the case at the initial stage is outlined, interpreted as a means of developing non-standardity.
The specificity of the educational content of "Man and Nature" necessitates the need to look for non-standard, highly effective and effective methods, in order for students not only to absorb the new knowledge, but also to form skills for learning by doing (according to J. Dewey), as well as to form and upgrade an environmentally friendly attitude towards the surrounding reality (natural, residential and social). This, in turn, allows us to hypothesize that the application of case studies in the study of "Man and the Progenitor" could lead to the development of the student's personality, by expanding his relationship with his surrounding environment. The application of case studies should be considered as a real opportunity for the development of non-standardization in the educational process in the elementary school, as it prepares students both for personal growth (both academically and in life) and for awareness of already existing causal investigative connections in the surrounding reality.
In the context of the researched issues, the article offers specific case studies, raising the hypothesis that their application in the "Man and Nature" classes would lead to stimulation of non-standardization of students in the elementary stage.