Students background formation peculiarities within the changing educational environment

Abstract

The last decades are characterized by impetuous growth of different aspects of students’ learning activity research and educational paradigm shift from education to self-education. These changes are caused by the society demands, by new requirements brought in front the professionals of the future. Modern psychology faces the problem of psychological and pedagogic foundation formation for innovative teaching methods and strategies; their implementation will not only increase effectiveness of education, but self-education as well.

We consider introjection of schema and background knowledge mechanism as a basis for self-education, as a result of which a subject forms “steady functional cognitive construct ” which helps him find the way in the changing educational environment, acquire and process knowledge necessary for his professional activity.