INVESTIGATION OF THE INFLUENCE OF TEACHING THE FUNDAMENTALS OF THE INVENTIVE TECHNOLOGY “EURONICS” ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CREATIVE POTENTIAL OF HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS

Abstract

There is a problem of a gradual decrease in creative activity of a person: from 18–19% creatively active among first graders to 1% among high school students. And then the decrease occurs among students of higher educational institutions. Sociological studies were conducted in Ukraine, according to which one in seven engineers is an inventor under the age of 30, one in five from 31 to 40, one in four from 41 to 50, and one in two after 50. It is clear that in our time of scientific and technological progress and competitive struggle, this is unacceptable. As Shiryaeva’s research shows, thanks to learning the theory of invention, the creative potential of 56% of eighth-graders has increased. However, neither Shiryaeva nor other specialists in teaching students the basics of invention theory provided methods for developing the creative potential of high school students to create pioneering inventions. This second problem was overcome thanks to the creation of the “Evronika” technology and gaining experience in its use when preparing the team for participation in the Third All-Ukrainian Competition of Young Inventors. Analysis of the team’s solution to the problem of extinguishing fires in high-rise buildings allowed us to identify the main methodological creative tools needed by high school students to create pioneering inventions. With their use, a method of teaching students to create such inventions was developed. Approbation of the methodology confirmed the possibility of teaching students to create pioneering inventions, as evidenced by the patents they received in Ukraine and awards for winning international competitions among adult inventors. However, the monitoring of the development of their creative abilities by conducting control works at the beginning and at the end of training showed that the students did not have an awareness of the need to create pioneering inventions and they did not yet have the corresponding desire. Therefore, the task of further research is to identify the ways of forming such aspirations in high school students, as well as to develop a suitable teaching method with improvement of existing and development of new methodological tools of the theory of invention and methods of their application in the learning process.