METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF FUTURE ECONOMISTS' CRITICAL THINKING IN THE PROCESS OF THEIR PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

The digitalization of Ukrainian society creates a demand for specialists in economic specialties who work effectively to develop the country's digital economy. That actualizes the modernization of their professional training and the need to create various professional qualities, particularly critical thinking. The need to develop critical thinking in training future economists requires the development of a scientific basis on which such development will take place. In other words, a methodological basis for developing future economists' critical thinking in their professional training needs to be developed. The article aims to identify and substantiate a methodological basis for the development of critical thinking of future economists using information technologies. To achieve this goal, we used several methods: theoretical analysis, systematization, and generalization of scientific results on the problems of training future economists, the use of information technology in the training of future economists, and the development of critical thinking of young people. We used the materials of Google Academy for the following queries: "critical thinking," "development of critical thinking," "training of economists," "use of information technologies," "methodological principles," "methodological approaches," "information technologies in the training of economists," "training of students of economic specialties." The result of the study is the substantiation of the importance of methodological approaches (systemic, axiological, synergistic, personality-oriented, cognitive-visual, contextual) for developing critical thinking of future economists through information technologies.