THE PEDAGOGICAL CASE AS A MEANS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF CRITICAL THINKING OF FUTURE TEACHERS

Abstract

Training of a highly qualified specialist, able to professionally apply in practice modern pedagogical forms, methods and techniques based on the formed competences and abilities, as well as his own readiness to solve actual problems of pedagogical science and educational practice, should be due to such methods and technologies that will ensure the educational process higher education, including active, or as they are called interactive, teaching methods. Their essence lies in the organization of interaction-based learning, dialogue, during which students learn to think critically, group into groups to share experiences and solve complex practical problems based on the analysis of circumstances and information provided, take into account alternative points of view, take responsibility , make thoughtful decisions, refocus knowledge-retransmitters on tutors, facilitators, supervisors, coaches, and passive students to active participants in the educational process. These include case-study (translated from English — the method of situation analysis). The training case is a description of the real situation; events that have taken place in a particular field and are described by the author in order to provoke discussion in a teaching audience, stimulate students to thorough analysis, productive discussion and decision making. The case should be considered as the only information complex that allows the student to fully understand the situation. The essence and historical dimension of case-study technology are covered in the article; the possibilities of its introduction into the educational process of preparation of masters in the specialty «011 Educational, pedagogical sciences» are outlined; the works of domestic and foreign scientists, teacher-practitioners on the use of educational cases in the practice of teacher training are analyzed; an example of a pedagogical case and an algorithm of work with him by a teacher and students during a practical lesson are offered.