Развитие критического мышления в современном российском обществе: что дает университет?

Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены. 2019. № 6. С. 91–110.

Koreshnikova Y.

All the members of education al community recognize the importance of critical thinking. It is also of highest importance for the job market for which people are often prepared by higher education institutions. The challenge facing these institutions is to raise an adequate level of critical thinking among university graduates. Nevertheless little research aimed to find strategies facilitating critical reasoning is being conducted in Russia. The findings of the foreign studies suggest that in order to develop critical thinking students need to participate in project activities (both group and individual activities) and to make presentations. Taken into consideration different cultural differences between Russian and foreign students and specific educational traditions,  it  is  difficult  to  immediately  apply the results of the foreign studies in Russia. The article is focused on the relationship  between  student  project  work and presentations and the development of critical reasoning in the Russian universities. The study is based on the results  of  the  SuperTest  project  which compares the educational achievements of  engineering  students  from  Russian,  Chinese  and  American  technical  universities. Using regression analysis the author proves that the situation in the Russian universities differs from the situation abroad: the level of critical thinking is negatively related to student project activity and presentations.

Keywords: critical thinking, evaluation, оценивание, individual project, индивидуальный проект, групповой проект, changes in the labor market, group pro­ject, presentations, критческое мышление, изменения на рынке труда, выступление с презентацией