Vygotskiy. [To the question of children`s character dynamics]

Abstract:
Chronologically, the process of character formation is as follows: 1) the child`s inability to adapt to the socio-cultural environment creates powerful obstacles to his growth (the principle of social conditioning of development); 2) these obstacles serve as incentives for compensatory development, become its target point and direct the entire process (the principle of perspective). future); 3) the presence of obstacles increases and forces the improvement of functions and leads to overcoming and adaptability (principle of compensation). The fact that relationship of individual to environment stands at the beginning and at the end of this process, gives it a closed, circular form. Out of unfitness (inadaptability) comes fitness ones. From childhood inferiority (impaired hearing), increased sensitivity, anxiety, curiosity develops through reactive formations and overcompensation – functions that seek to compensate for the defect, to create a psychological protective superstructure over it. The logic of character, its socio-psychological regularity, becomes meaningful and understandable. The development and life of the individual appear as a single process, striving forward and with objective necessity directed to the final, outlined by the requirements of social life.