Methodology of organizing project training as the basis for the formation of figurative representations on the history of Russian culture of the XVII-XVIII centuries
An important task of modern historical education is to find ways to optimize it, strengthen the role of students’ activity in the educational process to implement the requirements of the Learning standards for personal, meta-subject, subject-based results of general education. One of the most effective ways is organization of project-based learning. Numerous studies have established that students’ project activity based on figurative reconstruction acts as an important component of productive education and is an effective way to implement the activity approach. A systemic organization of schoolchildren’s project activity is necessary in order to form images of the historical past using different types of projects. The material on the national culture and everyday life of the XVII-XVIII centuries fully allows to see the types of creative reconstruction in the historical past. Theoretical analysis of the problem of formation of historical images in the project activity of seventh-graders has been carried out. Potential opportunities of the educational and methodical system on national history of the seventh-graders for the organization of their project activity on the basis of figurative reconstruction of the historical past have been revealed. Methodical conditions of the effective organization of students’ project activity for forming the images of the historical past at history lessons have been defined.