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Protasova Elena Konstantinovna
Assist. Prof. of the Department of he Design, Post-graduate student of The Department of General and Pedagogical Psychology, National Research Tomsk State University, Le22na@mail.ru, Tomsk

Evaluating the formation of the designer way of thinking in students (based on the study in Tomsk universities)

Abstract: 
Problem and Aim. The article studies the problem of development and implementing in universities new didactic tools that take into account the cognitive characteristics of students. The aim of the study is to present the results of examining the formation of professional thinking in students-designers at lessons of painting and drawing. The article justifies the necessity of using research and analytical work in the nature interpretation, stylized and decorative imaging. Methodology. The study was carried out on the basis of theoretical and empirical methods: analysis of publications on design training problems, on the educational process organization, on the connection of mental work and creativity and its diagnostic methods; pedagogical observation; students work review; pedagogical experiment. Developing the diagnostic tools to evaluate the designer thinking formation, we used methods of R. Amthauer “Test of the structure of intelligence”, of P. Torrens (on creative thinking) and N. Vishnyakova “Creativity”. Results. The designer way of thinking is presented as a synthesis of imaginative and logical functions of thinking involved at different stages of work, ability to search compositional solutions and image expressiveness. The following is determined as the criteria of the designer way of thinking formation: the conceptual apparatus, creative thinking, spatial thinking and compositional thinking. The author has developed the technique for evaluating compositional thinking and the conceptual apparatus. Basing on the results of testing students during the initial and resulting stages of the pedagogical experiment, the author comes to conclusion about the developing function of stylized image, which forms the professional designer thinking parameters. Thus, during the visual competences development, drawing and painting can solve professional design tasks, on conditions of implementing the program of transition from the volumetric to stylized image, individual training, and use of the proposed diagnostic tools.
Keywords: 
higher artistic education, design, designer way of thinking, stylized image, creativity, compositional thinking, evaluation criteria, diagnostic tools.
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