IMITATION-SITUATIONAL CASE STUDY WITHIN THE CONTEXT-ORIENTED SYSTEM OF EDUCATION OF FUTURE TEACHERS ON PROFESSIONAL CREATIVITY AND SKILLFULNESS

Abstract

The article presents the results of scientific analysis on evristic potential of imitation-situational case study as contemporary innovative method that facilitates the context-oriented education of future teachers for professional creativity and skillfulness. The content of the article describes in details the phenomenon of dydascalogical trainings for teachers and other pedagogical staff in general as well as its special types study – namely the courses on basics of pedagogical creativity and skillfulness, their unique subject of study is defined, their importance of being the efficient method of professional education of the students and substantial factor for integration of professional training of future teachers and its completeness, and also the article proves the appropriateness of using non-standard innovative practice-oriented pedagogical methods for student’ command on dydascalogical knowledge, in particular the imitation-situational training of the context type system of higher pedagogical education. The article proves that the dydactical potential for meta-methods of context (figurative-context) training is explained through the options of facilitating the change of activities of future professionals from educational process to professional tasks, transformation of the student’ knowledge from the study component to the professional feedback tools, changing their motivation from study to professional type. The key dydascological issue of educator’ task with the student changes from “set of information” as system of figures to “problem solution case” of professional activities representing all related subject matter and social discrepancies and conflict points. The modeling and comprehension of essence of the said subject methods and the social context of future professional activities along with gaining personal experience is provided by pedagogical framework of professional-like pedagogical activities of the students with extensive engagement of imitational educational models and methods of situational study. The results of experiments on specific use of imitation-situational study for education on the basics of pedagogical creativity and skillfulness delivered in the article proved the efficiency of such experimental methods for study on the content of dydascological training for master degree students and their respective training on professional creativity and skillfulness.