Active methods of teaching as a means of developing a creative personality (on the basis of teaching experience)

Modern conditions for the development of society pose new challenges for higher education. The problems of upbringing have become the main ones in the education system, and changes in the life of Russian society have defined these problems as topical of all educational problems. To update the content of upbringing and training means to concentrate all efforts on the formation of humanistic and socially significant values. This article is devoted to the issues of reforming and updating the modern education system. The author’s focus is one of the problems. This is the problem of the formation of a creative personality. The author determines the main principle of the system of education and upbringing as the principle of humanism, which should ensure the high moral potential of the student and lead to the creative personality’s formation of the university graduate. The author suggests that active teaching methods will be especially effective in solving the posed task and makes an attempt to answer the question: «How to teach»? The formation of the educational space of the university assumes the utmost cultivation in the educational process of interactive technologies which stimulate and reinforce the unity of teaching, education, upbringing and research. It is concluded that there is a need for a transition to a person-oriented type of education. The author of the article on the basis of her personal experience in teaching the discipline "Philosophy" gives recommendations, as well as develops lessons using active teaching methods. The article will be interesting for teachers, because ideas proposed by the author can be used as theoretical, philosophical and methodological basis for the practical implementation of training programs. The problems posed by the author of the article can become the starting point of discussions and seminars on the issues of youth’s socialization.