Using the case study method in research work with students

Abstract

The project Strategy for Reforming Higher Education in Ukraine until 2020 envisages the integration of higher education and science by improving the quality of research and innovation activities in higher educational institutions, the introduction of international educational and research projects in Ukraine. It will create an attractive and competitive national educational system of Ukraine integrated into the European Higher Education Area and the European Research Area (2014). Recently, on the pages of scientific journals scientists often refer to the general concept of the research work of students during the last years, when in the higher educational institutions of Ukraine continuous pedagogical training was introduced in the combination with special courses and special practice from the first to the fifth courses (Divinska, 2016). However, often such special courses were not a guarantee of a further creative, scientific activity of students. So, it is necessary to introduce innovative ideas and technologies related to the progressive ideas of world pedagogical practice. For example, integration of art into the learning process has been introduced into educational process of the USA for many years already, that allows to develop creativity, creative thinking in students (Margaret-Mary Sulentic, Dowell & Christian Z. Goering, 2018; Alfredo Bautista, Liang See Tan, Letchmi Devi Ponnusamy & Xenia Yau, 2016). Not the «blind» imitation of a foreign should be the basis for introducing a new one into the educational process, but only those teaching methods that mutually complement each other, expand the multicultural space, preserve national and cultural life. One of these new approaches in the study of Ukrainian folk dumas is the case study method.