Keyword: «pedagogical techniques»

This article is devoted to the evaluation of A.S. Pushkin's novel «The Captain's Daughter» significance in the methodical context of school literature course. Emphasizing the spiritual and moral potential of the work, the author reveals the question of the educational impact of the story on the young reader. The article also describes effective pedagogical techniques in the system of lessons on this story.

The society and the state assign higher education the task of fostering value guidelines, civic identity, and patriotic sentiment among young people. One of the instrumental approaches to solving this problem was the introduction of the ideological discipline «Fundamentals of Russian Statehood» into the curricula of the country's universities with clearly developed thematic sections. The success of the educational process depends significantly on how the learning material is presented. In this regard, there was a need to analyze, systematize and develop pedagogical approaches adapted to modern realities, personal and age characteristics of students. The purpose of this article is to systematize and substantiate the pedagogical methods and techniques that are most effective for teaching the discipline «Fundamentals of Russian Statehood», including assessing the feasibility of their application to achieve specific educational results. The approach to the research chosen by the authors is based on theoretical methods (analysis of scholarly literature, study and generalization of teachers’ professional experience, comparative analysis, system-structural and system-functional analysis, synthesis, generalization and systematization) and empirical methods (observation and description). The article shares practical experience in teaching the «Foundations of Russian Statehood» course to students at technical universities in Penza and Kazan. The paper concludes that it is advisable to use various pedagogical techniques and methods in accordance with the structure and content of the discipline. Thus, the pedagogical achievements of the authors in the form of mini-projects with the possibility of using social networks, solving case studies, analyzing historical sources, creating and solving crosswords, participating in business games, working with Internet resources and statistical data, as well as with mass media are distributed according to five sections of the course. The proposed interactive methods can be regarded as a basis for further theoretical study in the context of pedagogical science, in particular, for a conceptual assessment and improvement of teaching methods of socio-humanitarian disciplines. The developed set of pedagogical methods and techniques, containing specific assignments, citations, and links to Internet resources, can be applied by representatives of higher education in the Russian Federation in order to improve the quality of teaching the discipline «Fundamentals of Russian Statehood».