I. YAKOVLEV CHUVASH STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

cognitive didactics, cognitive tools, mental operations, cognitive activity

The article is devoted to the formation of cognitive tools at university students in the process of cognitive activity in technological training. Cognitive didactics comes from the fact that each person has an individual set of tools (external and internal).

The relevance of the problem under consideration is conditioned by the necessity to solve the problem of effective processing of information by students. The author proposes the idea of implementation and research of students’ mental operations in a specific sequence: representation of knowledge → structuring of the knowledge → transformation of the knowledge in connection with the main tools of thinking as the highest level of human cognition (concept, judgment and conclusion).

The main distinction of cognitive didactics is the fact that it focuses on the study and development of cognitive structures and tools.

The method employed in the study the diagnostics according to Jerome Bruner’s method to determine the types of thinking and levels of creativity.

The author established that the implementation of the employed method contributes to the study of basic types of thinking of students: objective, figurative, sign-oriented and symbolic. The data obtained can help teachers to restructure the teaching methods of a specific discipline, taking into consideration some personal characteristics of cognitive tools of each student individually and throughout the group.

Камалеева Алсу Рауфовна – доктор педагогических наук, доцент, ведущий научный сотрудник Института педагогики, психологии и социальных проблем; e-mail: kamaleyeva_kazan@mail.ru