Constructivist Models of Teaching in Development of Civil Cosmpetencies and Personal Qualities of Students

The article is dedicated to the influence of constructivist model based teaching in a university upon development of civil competencies with students, as well as upon building of active civil and life attitude with them as a result of development of appropriate personal qualities. Involvement of young people in publicly significant activities, overcoming of political apathy are viewed as most important factors of development of democracy and civil society in Russia. Empirically, the study is based on the results of triangulation content analysis of students’ essays and questioning of students of full course units of five Humanities departments of the Kazan University, conducted by the authors of the article as part of the project of application of constructivist models of teaching in education process at Humanities departments (2011, n = 386; 2012, n = 244).