CREATIVE THINKING

The paper refers to the grounding of school-age children’s creative thinking development foundations from the point of the integrative conception of creative thinking that deals with creative thinking as with the highest level of thinking. It is assumed that that creative thinking can be developped by purposely organized integration of separate forms of thinking.

The article shows how such elements of cultural tradition as folk fairy tales and traditional children's games participate in the development of emotional sphere and creative thinking of preschool children, as well as in building their life strategies including emigration at mature age. The author present the results of experimental work and empirical research in the subject field.