Practicing Application of the Game Model in Elaboration of Students Journalists’ Soft Skills

Abstract

The article describes the particular case of a game model application for the soft skills' training of the students journalists. That led to the mixed results that were conceptualized after the experiment that was carried out in the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia during the preparation and holding of the Student's television film festival as part of the bachelor's training course “Creative Team Management”. The authors put an increased focus on the development of a communicative-cognitive environment for elaborating soft skills in the form of games. The article presents the results of the integration of the D. Kolb's Experiential Learning method (an empiric basis) and the Pearson-Marr Archetype Indicator (a theoretical basis). This approach to learning let to solve several problems as theoretical, creative and practical. This study contributes to the development of an interdisciplinary model of “Four-Dimensional Education” (knowledge, skills, character, and meta-training), where a future professional would obtain not only theoretical knowledge and skills to predict the further developments in their field of expertise, and the proficiencies to use of constantly changing and expanding technologies for distant communication, but also a large spectrum of the personal qualities, axiological values aimed at positive behavior and engagement in the world. The results presented in the article would be helpful for the teachers in the tuition of future professionals in the various field of media studies.