Keyword: «case method»

The relevance of the research is due to the need to develop modern educational technologies for teaching foreign languages at a technical university. There is an obvious objective necessity to update the content, methods and principles of foreign language teaching, their orientation to the development of socially and professionally important skills in a dynamically changing world. Such interpersonal, communicative and analytical skills are commonly called "soft skills" in modern scientific and pedagogical literature; in the context of this research, "soft skills" are interpreted and defined as "flexible skills". As a result of the work carried out, the purpose of the research was realized – to study and interpret the concepts, definitions, content of the term "soft skills" (flexible skills), to determine the methodological justification and the potentials of their integration into the structure of students' universal communicative foreign language competence in the process of implementing educational "flexible skills" (soft skills) development technology into foreign language teaching at a technical university. The structure and principles of educational technology are described, taking into account the psychological and didactic, organizational and methodological, evaluative and reflexive peculiarities of "flexible skills" (soft skills) development in the given article. The scientific and methodological potential of the issue under research in the framework of the discipline "Foreign language" in a technical university is determined. The theoretical significance of the article is related to the author's interpretation of the term "soft skills" (flexible skills) as a complex of supra-professional skills, they guarantee a comfortable interpersonal interaction, they are responsible for successful academic results, obviously increase life comfort, and ensure the effective students' career development. The leading research methods: the case method and the project method are used in a new combination. It has been scientifically proved that their joint use application as the case-project method provides a synergetic educational effect by involving students in research activities in the process of studying specific cases together with successful situation examples of implementing flexible skills (soft skills). At the same time, the foreign language communicative skills are improving during the project implementation. The practical significance of the research is provided by the results of the article, which are presented in various formats corresponding to the pedagogical, psychological and methodological goals of integrating the soft skills (flexible skills) development technology into the educational process of teaching foreign languages at a technical university.

The article discusses the case method and digital technologies that support this method.

The relevance of the research topic is due to many reasons, including the existence of a correlating relationship between the level and quality of higher education with the general condition of the lawyers’ practice area. Thus, saturation of the labor market with highly qualified specialists will significantly reduce the quantitative and qualitative rate of national crime, improve the preventive and defensive activities of law enforcement agencies, ensure sustainable economic growth and the level of investment attractiveness, and it will also help ensure proper protection of the rights and legitimate interests of citizens. The main purpose of the study is to examine the case method in the framework of teaching legal disciplines, to study its internal and external properties, and to determine the prospects for the development of this method. The article analyzes the provisions of the regulatory framework and pedagogical doctrine on the use of the latest methods in the educational process for training future lawyers. The opinions and approaches of domestic and foreign researchers are analyzed, general problems on the stated topic and ways to resolve them in the foreseeable future are presented. The axiological foundations of the case method use in the educational process and the prospects for the development of this category are also defined. In the course of this study, the author examined the progressive approaches of domestic and foreign researchers to the integration of modern educational technologies and teaching methods into educational practice. The strengths and weaknesses of integrating foreign experience into the domestic "educational environment" are outlined. The results of the research presented by the author are the quintessence not only of the accumulation of accrued theoretical material, but also of long-term practical experience in teaching legal disciplines. The theoretical significance of the achieved results lies in the possibility of their use in the course of further scientific research on the organization of the educational process in educational institutions and organizations of higher education. The practical significance of the results obtained lies in the possibility of their use for the methodological works in legal disciplines.