Cognitive Simulation as Integrated Innovative Technology in Teaching of Social and Humanitarian Disciplines

Raisa I Platonova,Lana L Arzumanova,Nikolay N Marchuk,Alfiya R Masalimova,Elena Y Levina,Natalia V Mamitova,Valery V Grebennikov,Konstantin Yu Yakubenko

doi:10.12973/eurasia.2017.00973a

Abstract

Currently, teachers are searching for innovative educational technologies that enhance the effectiveness of educational activities. The purpose of the paper is the development and approbation of cognitive simulation technology in teaching of social and humanitarian disciplines. Based on the integration of sources of innovation, the authors developed the technology of cognitive simulation aimed at the formation of a structured system of knowledge for social and humanitarian disciplines’ subject area. Various forms of cognitive map methods used in the learning process (analysis, synthesis, projection, and simulation) allow developing the analytical and predictive abilities of students, and strengthening their educational motivation. The technology use is proposed for the first time for all socio-humanitarian disciplines in the process of vocational training, which contributes to the formation of inter-subject communications, spatial understanding of events, and transformations of reality. The empirical study carried out by the authors on the implementation of this technology in the educational process (the students of 3 universities, totaling 315 people participated in the study) confirmed the productivity of the technology and the possibility of its adaptation to various disciplines of social and humanitarian sphere.

Highlights

Innovation, in general sense, involves the implementation of previously unused changes in the structure of activities, significantly improving the effectiveness of the process
Consideration of the pedagogical achievements in the field of teaching social and humanitarian disciplines on the specified criteria led to the allocation of innovative directions that allow increasing the effectiveness of teaching: the idea of humanizing education and the implementation of humanistic educational practices; the idea of optimizing the training and educational process through organizational, managerial, informative, communicative transformations of pedagogical activity; an idea based on the construction, adaptation, modification of teaching technologies (Il'ina, 2012; Babintsev & Segedin, 2008; Kravchuk, Kamenskiy & Battle, 2010; Hannan & Silver, 2000)
At the forming stage of the experiment, the authoring technology of cognitive simulation was introduced into the educational process of the students in experimental groups within the framework of realization of the disciplines of social and humanitarian cycle

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Introduction

Innovation, in general sense, involves the implementation of previously unused changes in the structure of activities, significantly improving the effectiveness of the process. Pedagogical innovation should be based on deduced knowledge and offer unused conditions for the implementation of pedagogical activity, which determines the achievement of its productivity. Consideration of the pedagogical achievements in the field of teaching social and humanitarian disciplines on the specified criteria led to the allocation of innovative directions that allow increasing the effectiveness of teaching: the idea of humanizing education and the implementation of humanistic educational practices; the idea of optimizing the training and educational process through organizational, managerial, informative, communicative transformations of pedagogical activity; an idea based on the construction, adaptation, modification of teaching technologies (Il'ina, 2012; Babintsev & Segedin, 2008; Kravchuk, Kamenskiy & Battle, 2010; Hannan & Silver, 2000). Podlasiy (2013) notes that the development of a modern pedagogical system can be carried out in two main ways:

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