Development of Higher Education Students’ Creative Abilities in Learning and Research Activity

Abstract

The relevance of the paper is related to the necessity to develop the creative abilities of
students who are able to be professionally realized in a society in the conditions of rapid
social and information changes. In connection with this, there is a growing need to
develop probable paths of students' abilities forming for creative activity as the basis for
their future self-determination and self-improvement. The research is aimed at initiating
the students’ learning and research work in the course of vocational training in the
University to develop and realize their creative abilities. The authors propose a programtargeted approach to the development of learning and research creativity of students, the
main feature of which is the priory of activities goal-setting. The following aspects are
determined: the criteria for university students’ creative activity; stages of creative selfdevelopment of the student; components of the system of creative activity of the
university student (motivational, operational, diagnostic, and resultant); algorithm of
student's creative activity; methods, forms and means of realization of creative activity in
the process of vocational training of students in the university. The aspects selected by the authors make it possible to compile and implement a personal program for selfdevelopment of the creative abilities of each university student. The paper is intended for
educators and psychologists, the scientific community, dealing with the formation of
creative abilities of students in the learning and research activities.