FORMATION OF PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE OF FUTURE SPECIALISTS AS A PEDAGOGICAL PROBLEM

• Світлана Довбенко

  Прикарпатський національний університет імені Василя Стефаника

New challenges require adequate modernization of the educational system as a leading factor in socio-cultural reproduction, successful human life, its further improvement. Today, the Ukrainian state needs not so much a large number of specialists but specialists capable of a “breakthrough” in the most important industries and spheres of public life, with a humanistic way of thinking and universality of knowledge. This creates a targeted basis for our scientific research, which is to actualize the need for fundamentalization of the competency component of professional training of future specialists in higher educational institutions (HEIs). The conceptual basis of the competency approach as a new methodological tool in world practice and education is the idea of competence and key competencies, which established as one of the most effective ways to resolve contradictions in the development of education and society, which makes a person update his/her knowledge throughout life.

Ukraine’s European integration, strengthening the “status” of the competence approach in official Ukrainian and international educational documents reorient the traditional educational paradigm of translation of ready knowledge, formation of skills and abilities, to create conditions for acquiring a set of competencies and formation of professional competence, hat is, the graduate’s readiness for independent, responsible, productive practical activities, flexibility in solving personal and professional problems.

In the scientific literature, the concept of “competence” is currently considered as a characteristic of: an individual, result of education, specialist (official). That is, the concept of “competence” should be considered as a complex, multifaceted integrative ability of an individual to solve professional problems based on experience and competencies. Changes in the determination of educational goals, correlated with the global task of ensuring man’s entry into the social world, his/her productive adaptation in this world, necessitate the issue of ensuring a more complete, personality and socially integrated result by the education.

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