FREE CHOICE AS A CONDITION OF FORMING PRIMARY SCHOOLCHILDREN’S SELFDEPENDENCE IN L.N. TOLSTOY’S WORKS
This article presents the contents-related analysis on the problem of forming self-dependence of primary schoolchildren on the basis of their free choice in the pedagogical heritage of L.N. Tolstoy as a representative of Humanistic Russia. It represents the approaches to organization of educational activity, teaching methods, forms of teaching organization, the ways of evaluation at Yasnaya Polyana School. The ways conflicts were dealt with in children''s environment are described. L.N. Tolstoy thought that the interference into a conflict could make the situation even worse, and used to tell that misunderstanding, fights and quarrels are solved in a simple way when they are watched but not interfered as everything unconscious. These methods are very actual for the modern school and promote forming primary schoolchildren''s tolerance and independence. The author mentions that the educational principles of Yasnaya Poliana School were based in the preservation of intimacy of the spiritual world of a small man.