UDC 378.1

Asriev A.Yu.¹ (Omsk, Russian Federation) – asriev_okk@mail.ru; Tiron A.L.² (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation) – tirons1980@mail.ru

¹Omsk State Pedagogical University

²Novosibirsk Higher Military Command Order of Zhukov School

Abstract. The development of military education in modern sociocultural conditions, among other trends, is characterized by the search for personal foundations that ensure the effectiveness of the military-professional activities of the officer and determine the ways of their development. Among the integrative qualities of personality, especially manifested in the latest experience of military affairs, is the professional creative thinking of an officer. The transition to its purposeful development in military education seems to be a scientific problem, the formulation of which has just begun in the scientific literature. The problem of developing the ability of cadets to professional creative thinking receives a new author’s wording. For problematization, the methodology of sociocultural analysis is used, which makes it possible to consider the system of challenges and responses that arise at the cultural, social and personal levels of military education as a sociocultural system. The methodological position of the authors is formed by the leading personal and activity approaches and the understanding of thinking as a special type of human intellectual activity adopted in it. Professional creative thinking is considered as the highest and integrative form of thinking, and the ability to it, as a personal characteristic and quality, covering the value-semantic, cognitive, emotional-volitional and experimental-activity spheres of the personality. The authors of the article give their own arguments for the formulation of the problem and identify four problem nodes in it: the problem of purpose and controllability, the problem of content, the problem of the method and the problem of the subject. The justifications are taught by original ideas that orient a promising scientific search. Optimal military pedagogical systems are outlined: humanitarian training and research activities of cadets. The materials of the article are of interest to military teachers and teachers of military universities, can be used in the research and scientific and methodological work of a military university. A promising area of   application of the results is the organization of pedagogical research as part of the reform of military education.

Keywords: creative thinking, ability, profession, cadet, development, problem, conditions, solutions.

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For citation: Asriev, A. Yu., & Tiron, A. L. (2026). Development of professional creative thinking of military university cadets: Towards a problem. CITISE, 3, 578-589.  (In Russian).