Developing Creative Thinking in Future Teachers as a Topical Issue of Higher Education

The relevance of the problem of the formation of creative thinking among students of pedagogical areas of training is explained by the current contradiction between the society's need for creative, creatively thinking teachers and the insecurity of the system of professional pedagogical training necessary conditions for organizing the process of forming creative thinking among future teachers. The aim of the article is to study the features of the manifestation of creative thinking among students, as well as to study the dynamics of creativity of future teachers in the process of their professional training. Based on testing of 390 respondents using the methods of J. Bruner, the authors analyzed the levels of formation of creative thinking in several Russian universities. It was revealed that only a third of the students surveyed showed creative thinking at a high level. The study of the dynamics of the manifestation of creative thinking of future teachers was carried out mainly on the basis of Kazan Federal University. The dependence of the level of students' creativity on the course of their education was revealed. In addition, a questionnaire on the author's methodology, conducted additionally, confirmed the hypothesis that regular leisure reading of fiction contributes to an increase in the level of creativity of future teachers.