Интерактивные методы контекстного обучения как способ активизации познавательной деятельности студентов в процессе изучения непрофильных дисциплин в вузе: опыт реализации

Abstract

The research aims to substantiate the effectiveness of using interactive methods of contextual learning, which will contribute to the enhancement of students’ cognitive activity in the process of studying non-core disciplines at the university. The paper sheds light on the theoretical and practical issues of enhancing the cognitive activity of university students in the process of training in a non-core field of activity. The work describes the most relevant interactive methods for enhancing the cognitive activity of university students from the perspective of contextual learning; uses the experience of their practical application in mathematics classes as an example. The research is novel in that it develops and clarifies scientific ideas about modern interactive methods used in the setting of contextual learning when teaching non-core disciplines to university students and substantiates the possibility of their effective application in the educational process to enhance students’ cognitive activity. As a result, modern interactive methods used in contextual learning at the university have been identified and analysed; the most relevant ones for the use in the process of studying non-core disciplines in order to enhance the cognitive activity of students have been determined. The selected interactive teaching methods were tested in contextual classes in mathematics with the students of an agricultural university in various training programmes. The contextual nature of the classes was due to the presence of problem-based socio-contextual situations, which were resolved by using interactive teaching methods.