КРИТИЧЕСКОЕ МЫШЛЕНИЕ

Introduction. Critical thinking is increasingly in demand in professional activities and private life, however, education systems do not fully answer to the request of its formation yet. The main solution is usually considered to be the implementation of exercises on critical thinking in subject classes. Practice shows that effective implementation of such exercises requires the formation of an educational environment in which initiative and independent activity of a student are encouraged. Theoretical analysis.

The two kinds of non-classic thought – critical and relativistic are the specific features of the modern ontology. In the European philosophy the former ascends to I. Kant. The latter is the final ontological thesis of the former in the context of development of non-classic rationality. The the actual questions of the critical methodology of the scientific and philosophical knowledge are touched. 
 

Introduction. Developing academic communication skills is one the priorities in English language learning and teaching at universities. The process involves a comprehensive study into various genres of academic discourse. Written genres are of utmost importance since the greater part of academic communication takes place in a written form. Objective. The paper is aimed at describing the algorithm of teaching how to write a personal statement in English. Results.

Introduction. One of the tasks of modern education is the formation of the competencies of the «Systemic and Critical Thinking» group. Theoretical analysis. The article reveals the meaning of the concept of critical thinking, highlights its components and substantiates the significance of the development of this thinking in the cadets of the preparatory course, since it is during this period that the skills of working with scientific literature written in Russian are laid. Empirical analysis.