Project Method as a Basis for Forming Students’ Creative and Social Entrepreneurship Skills

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the project method as an effective tool for practical training of students regardless of their specialty, promotion of students' social and creative entrepreneurship skills, leadership and management skills, their adaptation to the labour market during study and after graduation. The peper deals with the different definition of the "project method" concept and synonyms, the requirements for the organization of educational project activity, the general features of project activity and the classification of projects proposed by various scientists. Particular attention in the work is paid to real-life examples of the project method implementation in the educational and pedagogic activities of students of the Faculty of Economic, Administrative and Educational Technologies of Ukrainian Engineering Pedagogics Academy, classification of skills that students acquire during involvement in various stages of the project activity (from idea formation, project drafting and implementation to defence its results).