Teaching Preschoolers Combinatory Experimentation
Alexander N. Poddiakov · Journal of Russian and East European Psychology · 1992
Many investigators stress the necessity of developing in preschoolers the activity of experimentation with new objects, since this is an important aspect in the self-reliance and active engagement of the child's thought [3,7,8]. Various authors have proposed their own methods for teaching children this activity [1,4,6], but I have been unable to find any studies on how preschoolers learn to experiment independently with complex, multirelational objects. In contrast to objects whose relations to each other are simple, multirelational objects reveal dependencies that are characterized by the interaction of several factors.