INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO INCREASING MOTIVATION OF STUDENTS IN THE HUMANITIES

Abstract

The article explores the possibilities existing in a modern Russian university for the widespread use of modern methodological approaches in improving students’ academic motivation in the humanities. The authors argue that in order to ensure the further Russian economy, culture and social sphere progressive development, it is necessary to intensify the personal and professional competencies development among students of humanities. The following is the motives that modern students who receive such specialties are guided by in the course of mastering the relevant programs classification. Based on the study of these motives, an intermediate conclusion is drawn that they permeate almost all modern university activity areas. Based on this conclusion, the authors formulate five organizational and pedagogical conditions, the implementation of which will effectively develop the learning motivation. A system of methodological approaches is proposed, in conditions characteristic for the modern organization of higher education, allowing for these conditions of successful implementation.