The article aims to study scientific and methodological features of the ways to enhance students’ learning activities in the context of higher education. The study's theoretical significance is derived from the in-depth analysis of the development of students' learning activity. The study offers the framework of characteristics for the concept of “students’ learning (cognitive) activity”. The main used methods were: analysis, peer-assessment, self-assessment. The interview method was used to make a cognitive profile of the participants, taking into account their psychological characteristics. The authors developed and scientifically tested educational model based on module curricula and interactive teaching methods to enhance students’ learning activity. The authors also reflected the dynamic of the learning activity of the students with disabilities participating in the experiment. The results proved the effectiveness of the developed model of enhancing students' learning activity by using interactive teaching methods. It was concluded that the module curricular and active teaching methods help enhance students with disabilities' learning activity and make them more responsible in respect to the results of their study.
Annotation. The article dedicated to substantiation necessity for serious ecologically oriented pre-professional professional training for future specialists agro-industrial complex of the country based on a holistic and systematic approaches. The vital importance of preservation natural wealth is attributable to the global environmental crisis closely related to the crisis of the spirituality of humanity. The purpose of our study was in the identification the degree of dominance of such a universal human value as “nature” using the express methods “Dominant”. The processing of the results showed that the overwhelming majority of respondents do not see and do not understand the importance of nature in ensuring the life and health of each person and humanity as a whole. This confirms the authors’ idea of the need for reviewing the curriculum and programs with the aim of strengthening their environmental component for the formation a high level of environmental culture of future specialists in the agro-industrial complex, because in their professional activities they are directly related to the use of the natural resources of our country.
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