Keyword: «arts and crafts»

The paper is devoted to the problem of choosing the pedagogical techniques used in the process of implementation of pedagogical potential of folk decorative and applied arts in continuous pedagogical education of the Chuvash Republic.

The priority of creative abilities, critical thinking development, activization and popularization of creative activities involvement, is currently one of the main long-term objectives of Russian education. Among the topical problems of this kind is the pedagogical support of the creative activity of college students. The author suggests using arts and crafts as an available and effective means of forming a creative personality. The purpose of this article is to describe and summarize the experience of organizing arts and crafts classes for students. When developing the model of pedagogical support, we used such theoretical approaches to work as: systematic – ensuring the integrity, hierarchy and logic of constructing the pedagogical model; personal – aimed at creating a pedagogical process that ensures the disclosure of the creative potential of the individual; archival research method – aimed at comparative analysis of mass and innovative pedagogical experience generalization; creative – contributing to the development of aesthetic perception of the world, productive activities and critical thinking. As diagnostic methods of research when working with the students of control and experimental groups, we used: testing, questioning, research conversation, pedagogical observation, interviewing. The article presents the results of positive dynamics in the formation of creative activity of college students, based on the study of a number of criteria: cognitive, motivational, activity, creative and emotional. Nevertheless, the problem of college students’ creative activity formation by means of arts and crafts in modern pedagogy has not been studied well enough. The theoretical significance of the article is in clarifying such concepts as creative activity, the phenomenon of arts and crafts and pedagogical support.