University students’ creative activity development as a pedagogical problem

The author of the paper considers the problem of university students’ creative activity development as an urgent social and pedagogical problem. Much attention is paid to the role of the concepts «creation» and «activity» that has equal meanings for the concept «creative activity». Creativity is regarded as a form of productive activity and autonomy of a person; creativity and innovation relationship is focused on. It is proved that human activity as a vitality sign is a prerequisite and the result of human development. It is alleged that a person gains experience activities on reproductive and imitative activity level referring to the experience of another person; takes tasks and seeks ways of performing on search and performing activity level; sets tasks and chooses new, unconventional, original ways of performing on creative activity level. The author proves that university students’ creative activity is the quality of an individual’s activity. The paper also contains characteristics of university student’s creative activity, forms, methods and means of university students’ creative activity development and some examples of the design studio work at Arts and Service Department. The efficiency of the design studio is proved and the principles of university students’ creative activity development, realized in the design studio, are noted.