The formation of a person's personality in his intellectual and moral improvement, the expansion of his independence, creativity and critical thinking is possible within his participation in the educational process. In the conditions of the Slovak Republic, the subject of civics plays an important role in this process. The aim of the paper is to point out the topicality of the researched problem and to present the given issue as a means of increasing the professional competencies of teachers in the field of development of critical and creative thinking of students. In this article, we pay attention to one of the innovative forms of learning, dialogue. As part of the APVV project "Practice in the centre of the subject field didactics, subject field didactics in the centre of preparation for practice" we used pedagogical diaries and video recordings from the pedagogical practice of teacher education students in the 1st - 2nd year of master's degree in civics at primary and secondary schools. [For "NORDSCI International Conference Proceedings (Online, October 12-14, 2020). Book 1. Volume 3," see ED616185.]