MEANS OF IMPLEMENTING PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL SUPPORT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENTS’ SKILLS TO SEARCH FOR IDEAS DURING SCIENTIFIC AND RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Abstract

The article provides the author’s solution to the problem of providing psychological and pedagogical support to students during their scientific and research activities. The annual All-Ukrainian competition-defense of the Small Academy of Sciences is designed for children of teenage and youth age, aimed at students’ development and presentation of their creative projects. Scientific and research activity in the field of technical creativity involves the formation of a high level of creativity of students precisely at the stage of posing a problem and finding ideas for its solution. This requires appropriate psychological and pedagogical support for young researchers. The article offers the author’s complex of practical tasks for the development of creativity (the ability to generate ideas in a certain field of science), in particular creative imagination, and the formation of the ability to manage the psychological inertia of thinking. This complex is the basis for the psychological and pedagogical support of students during their scientific and research activities and includes tasks: “Physical alphabet”, “Hidden possibilities of objects”, “Physical drawing”, “Create a device”, “Recognize an object”, “Physical analogy”, “Household analogy”. The given set of practical tasks is an effective means of developing students’ creativity. The use of this complex during the psychological and pedagogical support of scientific research activities helps students to combine the system of images of life experience and the results of their imagination, which, in turn, will be clues and a basis for the gradual formation of a bank of creative ideas of a young inventor. The complex of tasks can be applied both directly in lessons and during extracurricular activities of students (group classes, electives, “psychologist’s hours”, etc.). The tasks were developed and tested on the material from school physics, but a similar approach can be used on the example of other subjects.