Zahorulko M. Formation of future primary school teachers’ research and diagnostic skills in the process of teaching psychological and pedagogical disciplines

The thesis is the first attempt to systematically ground theoretical basis of forming future primary school teachers’ research and diagnostic skills in the process of teaching psychological and pedagogical disciplines. Future primary school teachers’ research and diagnostic skills are regarded as a complicated personal formation of an agent of future professional and pedagogical activity which is actively shaped and developed while learning psychological and pedagogical disciplines. The author has hypothesized the idea that the formation of future primary school teachers’ research and diagnostic skills in the process of teaching psychological and pedagogical disciplines will be effective if the designed and substantiated structural-and-functional didactic model is implemented in educational process of pedagogical higher education institutions. The thesis offers the substantiated structural-and-functional model of forming future primary school teachers’ research and diagnostic skills in the process of teaching psychological and pedagogical disciplines which consists of four components. The combination of didactic conditions as the basis of the structural-and-functional didactic model of forming future primary school teachers’ research and diagnostic skills in the process of teaching psychological and pedagogical disciplines are determined and substantiated. The main aim of the leading didactic condition is to integrate the self-educational and academic activity of future primary school teachers in the process of teaching psychological and pedagogical disciplines on the basis of increasing the research component. Subordinate didactic conditions include individualization of the process of learning psychological and pedagogical disciplines as a means of providing motivational basis for forming research and diagnostic skills of future primary school teachers; creation of IT-didactic environment for forming research competence of future primary school teachers; activation of future primary school teachers’ research and reflection activities. The criteria and indicators targeted at evaluating the levels of forming future primary school teachers’ research and diagnostic skills in the process of teaching psychological and pedagogical disciplines are defined and diagnostic tools are selected. The experimental work connected with implementing the designed and theoretically substantiated model of forming future primary school teachers’ research and diagnostic skills in the process of teaching psychological and pedagogical disciplines supports the hypothesis formulated in research: the effectiveness of forming future primary school teachers’ research and diagnostic skills in the process of teaching psychological and pedagogical disciplines will dramatically increased if the designed and theoretically substantiated structural-and-functional didactic model is implemented in educational process of pedagogical higher education institutions.