PROJECT ACTIVITY AS A CONDITION FOR EFFECTIVE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF LIBERAL ARTS STUDENTS

Abstract

The paper demonstrates the effectiveness of project activity for personal and professional development of liberal arts students. It concentrates on the competence approach as the basis of projects of different types and a key component of students’ development through the education process. The authors present a detailed analysis of the concept “competence” as a component of the criterion indicator for the implementation of the competence-based approach and its significance in pedagogical science. The approach is considered to have great potential as an innovative educational method in the form of project activity. The competence approach has already become a common practice among Russian top liberal arts institutions, and the paper describes one of such projects as a confirmation of the fact.