IMPROVING THE METHODOLOGY FOR DEVELOPING STUDENTS' LOGICAL THINKING SKILLS THROUGH HISTORY LESSONS

This scientific article comprehensively analyzes the theoretical and methodological foundations of the formation of logical thinking skills in students through history lessons. The article highlights the role of history in the development of cognitive processes such as understanding cause-and-effect relationships, forming an analytical approach, comparing, generalizing and evaluating. The psychological and pedagogical essence of logical thinking, the stages of development of thinking processes, and factors that increase the student's mental activity when working with historical materials are scientifically highlighted. The effectiveness of methods such as analyzing historical sources, creating problem situations, stimulating thinking through a system of questions, modeling historical events, analyzing based on a cause-and-effect chain, and teaching the principles of variant and historicity in the formation of students' logical thinking is shown.