Forming Visual and Critical Thinking in Law Students Through Learner-Centered Education

Abstract

The current urgent issues of introducing innovations into the educational process in higher educational institutions of the Russian Federation are relevant for the state as a whole. The changing role of education in the modern society entailed most of the inevitable innovation processes. One of the tasks of the modern higher education is to unleash the creative potential of all participants in the pedagogical process, as well as to provide them with opportunities to display creative abilities. In this article, we pay particularly close attention to the formation of critical thinking in law students, basing on three years of our work. The academic article is built on the description and analysis of innovative methods, such as: SWOT analysis, foresight sessions on disciplines, all sorts of role-playing, business games, playing roles and developing critical thinking in teaching the discipline “History of the State and Law of Russia” at the Law Faculty, M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University.