New Projects in Developmental Learning

Abstract

The article outlines the existing practices of developing learning which are being implemented in educational institutions of the Russian Federation since 1998 to the present day, taking into account modern trends and challenges to the world education: individualization and personalization; digitalization, networking, collaboration (cooperation, team work); interdisciplinary content of education as a norm; metacompetency as a result of education; smart learning in the era of the information society with the availability of communication technologies and team work; gamification as an introduction to learning educational games, etc. To all these challenges and trends of the modern reality, the educational system of D.B. Elkonin—V.V. Davydov has its own ‘answers’, through certain practices that are realized in the network of classes and schools of developmental learning in Russia. In addition, we describe new projects that can be viewed as a resource for the development of the Russian educational system.

Keywords

• student competencies
• educational transitions
• metasubject skills
• learning activity
• adolescent school
• concentrated learning
• formative assessment
• networked high school
• cross-cutting subject content lines
• trainer-technologist