The ability to learn requires the acquisition of basic basic skills (literacy, ability
to operate numbers and ICTs in the context of performing academic or professional
activities), as well as the ability to: gain access to and acquire new knowledge, skills
and abilities; to effectively manage education, career and activity models, while
demonstrating the ability to persistently continue learning, concentrating over long
periods of time, critically reflect on goals and objectives; allocate time for self-study
and self-discipline; to work with others, to benefit from work in heterogeneous groups
and to share knowledge gained; organize your own education, evaluate your work, and
if necessary, contact others for advice, information, help.
Positive attitude to learning involves motivation and willingness to continue it and
achieve success throughout life. Readiness to solve problems promotes both the purely
educational process and the individual's ability to overcome obstacles and adapt to
changes. According to the Recommendations of the European Parliament and the
European Council on key competences for lifelong learning (2006/962 / EC), the
important elements of a positive attitude to such training are the desire to use previous
learning and life experience, to seek opportunities for learning and the use of acquired
knowledge in different contexts of life [8].
According to the foreign experience, the ability to learn is attributed to
interdisciplinary (metapredmetnymi) abilities (in other words, competencies) that
contribute to the formation of meta-objective characteristics necessary for living in a
multinational and multicultural community and for the development of individual
capacities. In elementary school (ISCED level 1, in accordance with the International
Standard Classification of Education), the learning ability is formed both during the
study of individual subjects and on an interdisciplinary basis. In generalized, the ability
to study at elementary school is determined by the positive attitude to learning
activities, the awareness of their own abilities, the use of various means of
communication, including new technologies, the ability to work according to the plan,
the ability to use a variety of training strategies, the ability to adequately behave in
society. [9]
For the primary school, or more precisely the junior high school abroad (ISCED
level 2 according to the International Standard Classification of Education), one of the
most important for further development of the learning ability is the results of a study
on "Expanding Opportunities and Creating Competences for Young People: A New
Agenda for Secondary Education . Directions of development ". According to the
results of the study, the ability to study is a component of the metacognitive
characteristics that requires the possession of such skills and abilities: "Integrate formal
and informal learning by mastering the declarative (" know what ") and procedural
knowledge (" know how "); find, select and evaluate knowledge and information in an
information rich world; develop and apply intellectual knowledge beyond the
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