Anticipatory image in the structure of schoolchildren's thinking

The analysis of anticipation problem from the positions of structural-diale ctic approach enables one to construct dialectic model of anticipatory imag e on the base of opposites: possible - actual. Different kinds of anticipat ory images specified by their construction means: image-transformation, ima ge-mediation, image-consolidation - are marked out. The experiments show th e rightfulness of anticipatory image definition as one of dialectic thinkin g means.