DEVELOPMENT OF CRITICAL THINKING OF STUDENTS IN THE LEARNING PROCESS

Abstract

In the modern world, the requirements for specialists, and especially for graduates of pedagogical specialties, are changing. Higher education institution, along with professional training, is a place of intensive self-development and socialization of the student. To study successfully at the university it’s required from a student a rather high level of intellectual development, erudition, memory, and the ability to think logically. To think critically means to know the rules of logic and follow these rules. Critical thinking should not be reduced to negative judgments and criticism; on the contrary, it requires reasonable reasoning and consideration of a variety of approaches. To think critically, i.e. the tendency to doubt is formed by a person with the expansion of the boundaries of his knowledge of the world. «Critical» in this situation is equivalent to «analytic», aimed at cognition and analysis. The criticality of thinking allows a person to analyze the amount of information, select the necessary facts, logically rethink them, and make conclusions. Critical thinking is an invaluable skill that students need for a successful professional and personal life. Teachers should be thoughtful and purposeful in creating learning objectives that contribute to the development of critical thinking skills to a lower and higher level, as well as in using technologies to implement activities that support these learning goals