Literature study is seen to be useful in the labor training of pupils. Combined with history and social studies, it creates understanding of life, its patterns, and interpersonal relationships that people encounter in the labor process. Literature should be studied from the viewpoint of philosophical, social, and moral problems. (Author/AV)

Topics, materials, and assignments are provided for 49 literature lessons for tenth grade, plus review notes. Subject matter includes Gorky, Mayakovsky, Soviet literature in the 1920s, the 1930s, Tolstoi, the Great Patriotic War, Sholokhov, and modern foreign literature. (ND)

The author sees a need for a new approach to the study of literature which will blend teachers' insights into literary analysis with meaningful primary source reading by students. Creative teaching methods should integrate the literary-historical approach with contemporary reading and assessment of a work. (Author/AV)

Teachers must not separate themselves psychologically or physically from their classes. Effective teaching, especially in literature, involves helping students make personal discoveries, correcting mistakes without being authoritarian, and allowing children to enjoy learning. (AV)

Examples are given of how often teachers overlook the artistic aspects of literature works. Moral and aesthetic education must be achieved through understanding of beauty in art and language. Teachers should emphasize elements of literary works that arouse pupils' interests. (Author/AV)

The study of artistic works should be organized in such a way that the problem of developing the speech of school pupils is solved, not separately from, but in close connection with their ideational and aesthetic development. (Author)

The two chapters translated here from the book "Public Education in Developed Socialist Society" discuss (1) the teaching of the Russian language in the republic of Kirgizia (USSR) and (2) the role that education must play in incorporating non-Russian nationalities such as the Kirgiz people into a common, Soviet national culture. (RM)

Provides chapter six from V. V. Davydov's "Problems of Developmental Teaching." Discusses research done on the link between learning activity theory and the structuring of elementary level curricula. Reviews teaching methods for mathematics and the Russian language based on Davydov's theories. (CH)