Development of students' cognitive abilities in the conditions of the university meta-educational space
The article analyzes the role of imagination as a cognitive ability in preparing students to carry out prognostic activities in the conditions of the meta-educational space of a pedagogical university. The goal is to substantiate a new vision of such a psychological property of the human psyche as imagination in the educational process while preparing students for prognostic activities. The methodological basis of this approach in our study is Kant's idea of three components of human knowledge: feelings, imagination and thinking. Feelings, acting as the imperial base of knowledge of the world, provide the initial “food” for man’s imagination and thinking. Trying to systematize and classify sensual content, a person’s imagination is trying to expand the world to infinity (“the work of the unconscious”). While thinking, in Kant's words, tries to find a “pure reason” by reducing the infinite world down to logical schemes (“the work of the conscious”). The study found that the process of preparing students to carry out prognostic activities in the context of these cognitive abilities is closely related to the parity of thinking and imagination, if, in the end, we want to obtain a creative personality with such a professional pedagogical quality as prognostic competence.
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