METHODOLOGICAL THINKING AS ONE OF THE PEDAGOGICAL CULTURES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES

Abstract

The article searches for methodological guidelines and system-forming factors of professional activity of masters 44.04.01 Pedagogical education, orientation (profile) “Art education”, designed to improve the pedagogical system, to form important qualities of a teacher’s personality. In the development of professional competencies, the fundamental factor of the culture of thinking, the ability to see, to carry out selection, to solve tasks is the development of methodological thinking. The relevance of the research is based on the need to develop methodological thinking, which is due to the unpreparedness of students for cognitive, reflexive, communicative and integrating functions of cognition and comprehension. Thinking is an activity of consciousness, “mental activity”, manifests itself as an ability to use the means of intellectual activity in scientific research work. It becomes important to comprehend the content side of learning in order to develop students’ cognitive abilities. The purpose of the study is determined by the need to develop a meaningful component of learning, acting as a value-semantic reference under the influence of which students master the culture of scientific knowledge. Scientific novelty is based on the resolution of contradictions between the graduate’s competence model, the individualization of knowledge acquisition and the content-semantic model of learning. This allowed the author to develop a model for the development of methodological thinking by combining professional activity with research. The model is based on three aspects of the educational process: content-targeted, organizational and regulatory control. The presented results demonstrate flaws in the content of the educational system, which served as the basis for the definition of methods, technologies, the development of program-methodical, didactic materials, the use of which contributes to the activation of personal qualities and the development of methodological thinking as the basis of pedagogical culture, professional functions of a teacher.