Development of social design skills in schoolchildren by means of competence-based case-study tasks

The Federal State Educational Standard emphasizes the practice-oriented nature of modern education, which requires students not only to acquire knowledge, but also the ability to apply it in real life situations. The article describes the experience of developing, designing and testing competence-based tasks based on the case-study method in pedagogical practice for the development of students' skills in social design and meta-skills. The study examined the possibility of using the case method to develop students' skills of critical thinking, analysis and development of solutions to socially significant problems. A Christmas story with social issues was used as the material. Students of grades 6–8, working in groups and individually, analyzed problem situations and developed design solutions, which were then presented in the form of a presentation. The results showed that competence-based tasks develop students' flexibility of thinking, the ability to assess situations from different positions and make reasoned decisions. In conclusion, the authors analyze the described precedents of the educational process and draw conclusions about the improvement of the developed and tested materials for the implementation of the case-study method in the educational process. It is noted that the use of competence-based tasks based on the case method in the educational process can be an effective tool for fostering social responsibility and forming a civic position among schoolchildren.