PRACTICAL THINKING AND TEACHING / PRAKTIČNO MIŠLJENJE I NASTAVA

ONE PSYCHOLOGICAL VIEW / JEDNO PSIHOLOGIJSKO VIĐENJE

Abstract

The article presents one psychological view of practical thinking as the application of ideas and knowledge in specific situations, the difficulties that may occur and certain ways of overcoming them. Through the lens of the Theory of Successful Intelligence as possibilities for pedagogical influence on balanced development and use of human analytical, creative and practical abilities, 19 of the most common obstacles to encouragement of the development of practical thinking, especially in the teaching process, are described and briefly explained starting from lack of motivation to too much or too little self-confidence. These obstacles – or rather pedagogical challenges/questions and some of the offered answers, emphasizing the need for constant analyses and discussion of these obstacles through different teaching activities – may be incentives toward a more complex consideration and clearer didactic-methodical operationalisation of encouragement of the practical abilities of all direct participants in the teaching process.