Development of dialectical thinking in students as a factor in improving the quality of higher education in technical universities

Nikolayevna Rashchikulina,Aleksandrovna Plugina,Aleksandrovna Bezenkova,Sergeevna Mameteva,Petrovna Panova,Nikolaevna Kondrashova

doi:10.5937/jaes16-17508

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Abstract

The issue of improving the higher education quality within the framework of gnostic approach is updated in the article against the backdrop of dynamic scientific and technical process development and globalization of economic and social development. The purpose of the article is to develop a structural and logical approach to ensuring dialectical thinking development in students using integrative approach and complementarity method in the process of instruction. A low level of dialectical thinking in students has been revealed as a result of a pedagogical experiment in higher educational institutions of the Russian Federation. Principles, criteria and conditions for improving methodological support have been developed and substantiated through the example of such academic disciplines as 'Modern Natural Science Concept' and 'General Physics' with the aim to provide cross-curriculum communications and to form integrative concepts. A system of criteria for integrative concepts formedness in students has been reasoned with the use of special exercises of interdisciplinary reflexive supplementary type in the process of instruction. A problem-based developmental programmed exercise aimed at development of dialectical thinking in terms of the above academic disciplines has been elaborated using the complementarity method. Criteria for dialectical thinking development in students have been substantiated. The effectiveness of implementation of the proposed recommendations for the integrative method and the complementarity method application in higher education has been assessed.

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The main productive power is a man who creates national product and determines the pace of social development
A comprehensive use of the integrative method and the complementarity method would create a basis for concept integrity as an optimality factor in the content of education and in development of dialectical thinking in students
The goal of the research was to develop a structural and logical approach to integration of the conceptual framework based on the integrative approach and the complementarity method through the example of academic disciplines ‘Modern Natural Science Concept’ and ‘General Physics’ in the bachelor-level program ‘Applied Mathematics and Informatics’ in Russian universities

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The main productive power is a man who creates national product and determines the pace of social development. A comprehensive use of the integrative method and the complementarity method would create a basis for concept integrity as an optimality factor in the content of education and in development of dialectical thinking in students It is this approach that creates a synergistic effect of integrity with reference to a student personality, to exhaustibility in terms of academic content and elementality as an indispensable condition of completeness and integrity. This would ensure effective implementation of gnostic approach in education as a factor in enhancing intellectualization of modern production, on the one hand, and ensuring a high standard of knowledge as a component in human potential, on the other hand

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