THEORETICAL AND METHODICAL ASPECTS OF CASE TECHNOLOGY USE IN PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF PRESERVICE TEACHERS

KOVALCHUK Tаtiana – Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of Pedagogy Department, A.S. Pushkin Brest State University, Kosmonavtov Str., 21, Brest, 224016, Belarus E-mail adress: polina.artem@mail.ru ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7787-3753 ResearcherID : http://www.researcherid.com/rid/C-6259-2019 VISHNIAKOV Rostislav – Master of Pedagogical Sciences, Postgraduate Student of Pedagogy Department, A.S. Pushkin Brest State University, Kosmonavtov Str., 21, Brest, 224016 , Belarus E-mail adress: vishniakov@bk.ru ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3969-1027 ResearcherID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/C-2029-2019 To cite this article: Kovalchuk, T., & Vishniakov, R. (2019). Teoreticheskie i metodicheskie aspekty ispolzovaniia keis-tekhnologii v professionalnoi podgotovke budushchikh pedagogov [Theoretical and methodical aspects of case technology use in professional training of preservice teachers]. Liudynoznavchi studii. Seriia «Pedahohika» – Human Studies. Series of «Pedagogy» , 8/40, 27–42. doi: 10.24919/2413-2039.8/40.164392 [in Russian]. Article history Received: September 22, 2018 Received in revised form: October 25, 2018 Accepted: February 18, 2019 Available online: April 22, 2019 Journal homepage: http://lssp.dspu.edu.ua/ p-ISSN 2313-2094 e-ISSN 2413-2039 © 2019 The Authors. Human studies. Series of «Pedagogy» published by Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University & Open Journal Systems. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ ). Abstract. The article reveals some aspects of the scientific and methodological support of the application of case technology in the educational process: approaches to the disclosure of the definitions of ‘case technology’, ‘case-method’ and ‘case study’ based on the analysis of the views of foreign and national scientists, general and distinctive features of the various methods making up the case technology. It is marked that case technology comprises an assembly of methods: case method, case study, situational analysis method, incident method, business situations analysis, etc. (authors treat a ‘task situation’ as the key common feature for all the case methods, that is subjected to detailed analysis from the position of either problem determination or grounding of its optimal or possible decisions); their employment in the educational process meets the principal criteria of the technology – science based algorithm (law congruence) and results achievement assurance. Special attention is paid to stating the difference between the two most wide spread approaches – case method and case study. The analysis of the approaches to the cases classification (by purpose of use, by the amount of source data and the nature of work with information, by type of analysis), that specify the peculiarities of cases development and their effective application fields, may be especially interesting for educational practice. In the article the educational potential of the technology is justified, that lies in strengthening of the practical orientation of the professional training of preservice teachers (because of contextual learning realization), in significant rise in the educational process productivity preconditioned by the essential case features and their possibilities for the development of the professional and universal competences. One of the important aspects of the scientific and methodological support of the case technology is the specifics of its use: the content of activity at each stage, the place of the case technology in the system of studies. Acknowledgments. Sincere thanks to the Board of A.S. Pushkin Brest State University, in the person of Anna Sender, Rector, and Nadezhda Leonyuk, Dean, Social Pedagogy Department. Funding. The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.