DEVELOPMENT OF CRITICAL THINKING IN FUTURE JOURNALISTS: THE CONSTITUENT STAGE OF THE EXPERIMENT

Abstract

The article reflects the results of the study of the process of developing critical thinking in future international journalists at the ascertaining stage. The relevance of the problem raised is proven, which is due to the changed information environment, free in nature. There is so much information in the world that it is becoming problematic to check its reliability. All this leads to an urgent need to develop the skill of a journalist to receive, filter and transmit information. This quality is designated as critical thinking, which is necessary, to a greater extent, for an international journalist, since the events of recent decades have proven that journalists and war correspondents have become direct participants and conductors of truthful information and disinformation. The article provides various definitions of the concept of “critical thinking” in the works of Russian and foreign scientists. Within the framework of the applied significance of the article, a preliminary stage of the formation of critical thinking in a future journalist is provided and the prospects for future research in the context of the formative and final stages through the introduction of an elective course are shown.