The Formation of Students’ Creative Thinking in Vocational Education

Abstract

The knowledge that university students receive is sufficient to create hundreds of inventions capable of making a significant contribution to the development of our country. However, the students, to our great regret, are not given this task so far - to make an invention. To overcome this problem, it is necessary to develop an effective patent policy of the university, use diagnostics to determine the individual psychological characteristics of the individual, the technology of forming a prognostic and creative style of thinking. Particular attention should be given to motivation and the formation of creative groups, taking into account individual characteristics of the individual and their mutual influence in the process of joint creative activity. The authors offer the author's testing methodology to determine the type of thinking and creative abilities of students at the university, which allows to determine with high accuracy the type of thinking of any person and to reveal the benefits that he can bring to the research group. The structure of the personality makes it possible to effectively use a certain method of technical creativity, so it is expedient to study all the basic methods, and to give everyone the opportunity to use the method that corresponds to him fully. The second aspect of solving this problem is the liquidation of the patent illiteracy of young specialists. To this end, the authors propose to introduce the discipline “Patent Science” into the curriculum of all technical specialties. The possibility of protecting the results of intellectual activity (RID) is one of the important motivating factors for creative activity. TRIZ (the theory of solving inventive problems), copyright law can be another step in stimulating the creative and inventive activity of students, and for professors and teachers it is necessary to organize refresher courses and hold annual competitions for student projects.