Implementing the Principles of Developing Learning in Teaching History: Experience of the Metar Laboratory (Faculty of History, Political Science, and Law, State University of Education)

Aim. To summarize the experience of implementing the principles of developmental learning in teaching history at the METAR laboratory, which has been operating at the Faculty of History, Political Science, and Law since the late 1980s. Methodology. When studying the stages of the METAR laboratory's activities, a search was conducted to summarize the results of the laboratory's publication activity and the implementation of its methodological developments. The laboratory's activities were characterized in the context of domestic research on the methodology of teaching history conducted in the 1980s and 2010s. Results. The study summarizes the results of the activities of the METAR laboratory, which aimed to implement the principles of developmental learning in school history teaching. The laboratory's team's developments were implemented in the creation of textbooks included in the federal list of textbooks, textbooks on the history of the Moscow region, and the regional historical and cultural standard for the history of the Moscow region. Research implications. New data on the development of methodological thought in the post-Soviet and modern periods is introduced into scientific circulation.