DEVELOPMENT OF CRITICAL THINKING OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS THROUGH FORMING AND DEVELOPING PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES

Abstract

In the modern educational space, an important role in the professional activity of a future specialist is played by professional competencies formed in the process of studying at a university, in which the student’s critical thinking plays a decisive role. The researchers consider features of the process of forming critical thinking in university students, for the first time carry out a comparative analysis of curricula, develop a set of educational tasks that contributes to the development of critical thinking of students. The authors organize and conduct the ascertaining stage of a pedagogical experiment on development of elements of critical thinking in the educational process of students at the Faculty of Economics and Law of the Gorno-Altaisk State University. A comparative analysis of the obtained results allows to conclude that it is necessary to build a structural and functional model for the formation and development of components of critical thinking of university students.