The formation of creative abilities of high school students: structural and substantive aspects

The article provides a detailed analysis of the problem of development of creative abilities of high school students. The study was conducted by examining the theoretical and practical literature in the field of pedagogy and psychology with reference to the authoritative sources. The article is of topical importance because today the work on the development of creative abilities of university graduates is not effective enough and this problem needs further studies and search of the ways to solve it. The author has carried out a profound work to determine the effectiveness of the fantasy genre as a means of developing creative abilities, the potential of which to date is not used or is used not in full. The article presents a list of characteristic features of fantasy genre, as well as a brief historical background of this literary trend and its differences from other literary genres. The authors make a detailed analysis of the concepts of creativity, creative personality and creative ability and come to the conclusion about the necessity of in-depth studies of the problem raised in the article and elaboration of effective methods enhancing and developing creative abilities of students.