The Child on the Threshold of Becoming a Pupil

摘要

The functions of a preschooler's imagination that are required for a child to become immersed in the new social situation of development that characterizes the beginning of the early school ages are analyzed. The new social situation of development consists, above all, of new forms of interaction for the child with adults and other children within new primary activity-education. Imagination is viewed as a condition for the development of interaction during the older preschool ages based on a number of important indicators-the degree of development of social-communication skills and communicative competence-that underlie the "social component" of school readiness.