COGNITIVE INTEREST AS A BASIS FOR THE FORMATION OF STUDENTS’ KNOWLEDGE AND CREATIVE THINKING

Abstract

The article deals with the introduction of interactive teaching methods in the educational process. The analysis of students’ knowledge formation, their creative thinking (one of the main tasks of higher education) is carried out.The cognitive interest and its development are distinguished. The importance of using historical examples is emphasized. This approach contributes to the optimum application of knowledge in practice and the effective solution of actual problems. Achieving the goal of the study made it possible to use general scientific methods: analysis, synthesis, concretization, pedagogical observation, comparison.The author offers an easy to understand scheme. This approach contributes to the effective solution of the present day problems. The achievement of the goal was facilitated by the use of such general scientific methods as analysis, concretization, pedagogical observation, comparison. A simple scheme is proposed, the key in the scheme is 1648 ‒ the end of the Thirty Years’ War. The events in Zaporizhia of the Ukrainian state, headed by Bogdan Khmelnitskyi, are important; life path of Ivan Bohun, Maxym Kryvonos, Yurii Nemyrych, Danil Nechai. The events of 1917, 1939, 1945 (the following key dates) are known to any student. The effectiveness of the scheme is confirmed by practice: it is easier for students to remember dates and historical events, and the field of application of knowledge is expanding. At the same time, it is important to be able to systematize the acquired knowledge and supplement the created system with the new information. For example, the works of such prominent representatives of his time as the inventor Francis Bacon or the mathematician, the mechanic Gottfried Leibniz. University teachers (both technical and humanities) can use this information. The development of creative thinking is facilitated by the introduction of interactive teaching methods, exemplified by case technologies. Case studies have a special place in the tools of modern science. Students’ work on a case requires a desire to learn in a new way, a desire for self-education.