Problem-Search Based Teaching Method as a Mean of Forming Professional Competencies of Students

This article examines and analyzes the peculiarities of using the problem-search based method in the framework of teaching the discipline "Psychology and Sociology of Journalism". The effectiveness of the problem-search based method was investigated as well as the use of research techniques of this method. When applying the problem-search based method, the teacher does not communicate ready-made knowledge but arranges the students to search for them: concepts, patterns, theories are learned in the course of search, observation, analysis of facts, mental activity, the result of which is knowledge. In the course of the research, it became known that in its application, the problem-search based method creates the difficulty caused by one of the important development patterns and also combining the rational with the emotional, it contributes to the development of interest among students majoring in "Journalism" to learning, transforming curiosity into a permanent motive.