Strategies for Linking Research and Teaching in the Educational Environment of the British High School in the Light of Students' Research Skills Formation

The issue of the development of research skills and the organization of research activities of students of higher education institutions is multifaceted. Currently, one of the leading global trends in university education is the integration of the research component into the process of training of future specialists, or the so-called research / teaching nexus. The introduction of a research component to university curricula and programmes is marked by particular differences in various institutions of higher education. This component can either be integrated into educational course structure or provided by special educational courses on the methodology of scientific research. Scholars differ greatly in their views on the nature of the relationship between research and teaching. The purpose of the article: to consider strategies for linking research and teaching in an educational environment in the light of research skills formation of future specialists in Great Britain. Research methods: analysis and generalization of psychological and pedagogical literature; theoretical generalization. The higher school identifies research skills as one of the important attributes of graduates. The British education system has developed special strategies (strategic research capacity) for the step-by-step formation of research skills of future specialists. Strategies are a stable set of actions purposefully organized by the subject of activity (a teacher) to solve various research tasks included in the content of training courses, tasks for independent work, control, and evaluation materials, etc. These strategies determine the content, methods, and technologies of research activity, and characterize the direction and executive activity of future researchers. The basis for determining the content and technologies of research activity for each of the strategies is the leading method of research activity.