PROJECT METATECHNOLOGY AS A MEANS OF INTEGRATING RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL COMPONENTS IN THE TEACHING PROCESS OF UNIVERSITIES
We have done the analysis of using project metatechnologies, providing the integration of scientific and teaching components in the educational process of universities, integration of research and activity-based approach, dealing with self-guided acquisition of knowledge and skills needed for future professional occupation. Under the conditions of experimental teaching, three stages of implementation of project metatechnologies were developed. The first stage called a preparation stage was devoted to the development of creative skills and critical thinking of students, their abilities to formulate the problem and theme for studying, skills to collect the information and doing the research. The second stage - a technological stage was dedicated to the process of working out the technology of a product or service producing, to producing of a project product according to the technology chosen. The final stage: analysis of the fullness of the project, defining of the reasons if the problem was not solved in a complete way. A new type of classifications of projects includes the following: in class-training, in-class training + industrial, industrial, cluster. A special system of educational tasks are created for all the types of projects and all stages of teaching project metatechnologies. According to the results the observation about raising indicators of skills in the sphere of research work after students’ participation in project technologies as done.