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SUMMARY
The dynamic speed of modern society calls for a new vision of the specific features of
university activities. Changes in the social, economic and political spheres have created
a need to shift the focus from the university as a research centre, a citadel of academic
education, as it has logically developed as a result of the Humboldt’s reform, to a university
as the implementer of public objectives and the former of social and political consciousness
within the context of lifelong education. The latest pedagogical opinions speak about the
need to develop, apart from scientific competences, social and research competences at
universities. This aspect, accordingly, leads to the necessity to carry out conceptual changes
in the curricula of higher education, in order to foster the advancement of critical thinking
in students. The topicality of the formation of critical thinking in modern universities
outlines several areas of research: 1) the acquisition of critical thinking during studies as a
method for analysis and assessment of academic knowledge; 2) critical thinking within the
framework of socio-cultural competences and the research of its formation in the university
study process; 3) critical thinking as a precondition for a student’s emancipation and moral
self-determination; and 4) the issue of modern pedagogical methods and tools for effective
promotion of critical thinking, thus combining all three above-mentioned aspects into the
concept.
Keywords: critical thinking, university democratisation process, basic principles of
university`s activities, university study process.
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