Abstract:
This article addressed the importance of extracurricular activities in the formation of learning attitudes in primary school students. The psycho-pedagogical conditions for the formation of learning attitudes within extracurricular activities were highlighted: the general conditions - positive psychological climate, focusing on fundamental psychological and pedagogical approaches; didactic conditions - the pedagogical model of student learning, the students’ learning strategies; the specific conditions of individualization and differentiation - the design of psychological activities oriented towards the individual characteristics of the student, the connection of specific activities with general and educational ones. Compliance with these conditions facilitates the acquisition of learning attitudes by interacting with the group of students who have a positive attitude towards learning, by capitalizing on social experience, by cognitive development. The need to implement the dimensions of learning was argued: the sociocultural dimension that reflects the need for optimal social functioning ensured through the prism of several needs; the behavioral dimension that emphasizes the dynamic, regulatory aspect, directs the students’ behavior, generates self-affirmation impulses, which are oriented towards obtaining a high school performance; the cognitive dimension that illustrates the individual’s need to exchange information with the environment and his need to understand himself. Extracurricular activities offer opportunities for the formation and development of learning attitudes in relation to certain objectives that inspire and challenge the learner, both for his educational success and for his success in everyday life. These have an important value both for the social and personal development of the learner, through specific and particular approaches.
