RESEARCH TRAINING AS A MEANS OF FORMING PHYSICAL THINKING
The paper examines questions of physical thinking formation among university graduates through their deeper engagement into scientific research activities. Special aspects and formation phases are being defined as key pillars of natural scientific cognition. Students’ exploratory activity is analyzed in terms of the learner-centered approach to educational process along with continuous education concept and according to Federal State Educational Standard in Higher Education requirements in the field of future specialists’ training. A model of using research orientation tasks for arranging elective individual study during the Physics course at a university is illustrated. The introduced material presents consolidation of overall experience in the sphere of dealing with professionally-oriented tasks during the Physics course to form research skills within Mozhaisky Military Space Academy students.