Topical issues of methodology of role-playing in teaching (on the example of studying the academic discipline «jurisprudence»)

The paper is devoted to the analysis of the authors' experience in the formation of cognitive and functional competence, including legal literacy (pre-game stage — given task: contextual and practice-oriented task) in the process of studying a non-core discipline «Jurisprudence» (on the topic «Family Law», which at first glance is not intended to form professional competences). The purpose of the role-playing game is: formation and development of legal literacy as one of the components of cognitive competence of students in educational institutions of higher education. As a result of analyzing the content of the material presented in the article, the authors make some conclusions.

In particular: firstly, the evidence of the use in training of all methodological tools of the concept of contextual learning (here — role-playing game), secondly, the conclusion about the need to model learning through quasi-professional activity of students in the whole range of academic disciplines, wherever it is possible, as built on a scientific basis and experience, such a stage of training with the use of active forms in training and teaching significantly reduces the time and other means in the transition from knowledge and on the basis of active forms of training and learning, fourthly, once again emphasizes the importance of increasing the conduct of classes in the form of role-playing games, which favorably «supports, feeds» such management of professional motivation as the activation of professional interest and the development of educational-professional interactions and interpersonal relations, fifth, from the methodological point of view, the role-playing game can be considered as a method of teaching, but from the point of view of legal status — the role-playing game, as a method, has no right to be called so, because the role-playing game in this case, possessing all the features of the object of copyright (the result of creative work and formalized expression in an understandable form), will not become an object of civil legal relations, which will be subject to copyright (part 2 of article 1255 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation) by virtue of the rules established by part 5 of article 1259 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation.