HUMOR IS NECESSARY FOR INTENSIFICATION LEARNING CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION

The article reveals the possibilities of using joke and cartoon as didactic tools that are adequate to the goals of "mass-education" of teaching creative technologies, where the theory of solving inventive problems (TRIZ) is a prominent representative today. These forms of humor have a range of unique properties and are therefore suitable for teaching different categories of students creative thinking procedures at all levels of training and self-education. An original method has been created, the essence of which is to gradually transform an joke and caricature in the classroom from passive (illustrative-relaxation) didactic tools into active ones, which increase the motivation and success of students ' activities by increasing their instrumental knowledge and skills to change systems of any nature (this is knowledge of the meta-level-knowledge-transformation and system knowledge). Algorithmic procedures for using these forms of humor have been tested in the University environment and the post-graduate education system (including teacher training), as well as in business education (in industrial companies, research centers and laboratories). The effectiveness and efficiency of using these non-standard didactic tools has been confirmed