Kovtun T. Pedagogical conditions of intellectual development of students in the Agricultural Colleges in the process of humanitarian training

The process of intellectual development of students in Agricultural Colleges during humanitarian training was investigated in the dissertation. The author analyses the leading theories of intelligence, clarifies the meaning of the notion "intellectual development of the individual student" and characterises the components and functions of its structure. The thesis also defines the major problems; reveals the principles and grounds pedagogical factors and conditions of intellectual development of students in the process of their humanitarian training. A prognostic model of intellectual development of students in Agricultural Colleges is presented in this research and it perfectly reflects the study process in the three blocks: methodological, substantially active and diagnostically correctional. In the course of study the criteria are specified and the levels of intellectual development of students are characterized. The methods of intellectual development of students in the Agricultural Colleges in the process of humanitarian training are experimentally checked and the appropriate methodical recommendations are elaborated.