PROJECT ACTIVITIES IN EDUCATION: THE DEVELOPMENT MECHANISMS

Abstract

The article discusses the main features and development mechanisms of project activities in modern Russian middle-school education. The main attention is paid to the key points of the project activities organization within the framework of the term work, its metasubject nature. In addition, various approaches accumulated to date in the research literature to the definition and basic characteristics of the concepts “project” and “project activity” are studied. After studying the special literature, the specific stages of students’ work on educational projects are considered. In addition, the article demonstrates the impact on the use of projects of a number of objective processes that are fixed in modern Russian society and, in particular, in the system of middle-school education. At the end of the article, the researchers compare a project with other teaching methods, such as a research method.