The Potential of a Panel Discussion as a Means of Developing Methodological Literacy in a Philology Student

Modern requirements for the training of students of a pedagogical university are aimed at forming certain professional and pedagogical competencies. The Institute of Philology of the Moscow State Pedagogical University is implementing a pilot project aimed at improving the system of higher education. The relevance of the study is due to the need to develop creativity, mobility of thinking, methodological and functional literacy, and communication skills in future teachers of three humanitarian subjects (Russian language, literature, history). The article discusses the structure and content of a panel discussion when mastering a methodological discipline. It is substantiated that the development of methodological literacy of a future teacher is directly related to mastering the history of methodological science. The purpose of the study is to identify the potential of a panel discussion as a means of developing methodological literacy of a philology student, updating the main approaches to the study of classical literature in the methodological science of the 18th-19th centuries based on the use of different sources of information in the discussion process. Research methods are as follows: comparative and contrastive analysis, synthesis and generalization of scientific and methodological literature, specification of methodological content on the topic, pedagogical modeling of the panel discussion process with the allocation of key stages. Research participants have become students-philologists of the Moscow State Pedagogical University, studying in the direction of training bachelor’s degree Pedagogical education, specialties: Russian language, Literature, History. In the course of the study, it has been proven that the panel discussion is one of the means of forming the methodological literacy of the future teacher, contributes to the development of professional practice-oriented competencies of future teachers of literature. The prospect of further research is foreseen in the creation of a system of effective teaching methods in a pedagogical university when studying methodological disciplines.