THE ISSUE OF DEVELOPMENT OF JUNIOR SCHOOLCHILDREN WITH RETARDED MENTAL FUNCTIONING AS THE LEARNING ACTIVITY SUBJECTS

The article represents the analysis of the issue of development of a junior schoolchild with retarded mental functioning (RMF) as the learning activity subjects. The subjective activity of a child here is a factor of his mental development and self-development. The theoretic review of the references has shown that the junior schoolchildren having RMF are characterized with substantial peculiarities in forming every structural component of their learning activity: the malformation of motivational and operational components, low level of self-control. As a result they are late in forming the major psychological neoplasm important for the subjective entering the learning activity at this stage.

learning activity, subject of learning, learning skills, motivation, cognitive need, training task, learning actions, control, self-control, junior schoolchildren