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Applying Psycho-Technical Fairy Tale To Develop Child’s Logical Thinking Abilities

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Questions to observe the research results Results: the child’s reactions, changes in cognitive and communication strategies
Did the fairy tale interested the child? The child has read the fairy tale by herself at once. After reading she said that it was interesting to read.
Did the child have a wish to read the second part of the fairy tale? Immediately after she has read the fairy tale she asked the second part of fairy tale. Regularly (practically every day) during two weeks after reading she continued to remind about the second part.
Did the child apply the knowledge of the laws of logic acquired from the fairy tale? Nine months after she has read the fairy tale she began to use expressions “this is illogical”, “there is not logic in this”, “this illustration does not match the example” and etc. and she was able to prove her expressions with logical arguments. Earlier (before reading the fairy tale) this kind of thinking and treating information was not character for the child.
Did the child began to feel subjective significance of logical thinking? After she has read the fairy tale she began to react the remarks containing the assessment of her abilities of logical thinking more emotionally.
Did the child considered the abilities to think logically useful for other children? After the child has read the fairy tale, she returned it, marking the places in the text which are hard for other children’s understanding for her opinion. She asked to formulate them more clearly and gave an example of the book for children which was written good and clear to her mind.
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