TRAINING AND EDUCATION OF A HIGHLY QUALIFIED PROFESSIONAL AT HIGHER SCHOOL
One of the important tasks of higher school is training and education of a true professional. The article concerns the qualities which a future specialist must possess (flexibility, mobility, high morality, general cultural competence, adaptation ability in different social conditions, aspiration for self-education, development of creative potential, etc.), teacher’s role in their formation, and pedagogical conditions of students’ self-realization. Contemporary circumstances require not only professional knowledge and skills from a graduate, but also high level of social adaptation and general cultural competence. It means that one of the main tasks of higher school is not just training of a highly qualified specialist but his competence education in social sense, so that a young specialist will be adaptable to constant fluctuation of life and working conditions. He mustn’t do his job mechanically, but communicate qualitatively with his colleagues, be open to innovative processes occurring both in the society and in professional activity. The article emphasizes the necessity of a future specialist’s upbringing in sociocultural direction. Creation of sociocultural conditions at higher school may contribute to this process and may help a graduate ‘to join’ labour collective, professional activity, social life without any efforts. The author recommends creation of some pedagogical conditions at higher school for students’ self-realization, namely, enlargement of sociocultural aspect in the educational process, introduction of social designing, development and approbation of professional and personal qualities perfection programme. The key role in highly qualified professional training and upbringing at higher school belongs to a teacher who must possess not only deep knowledge in his taught subject, but must enjoy authority over students and colleagues, must keep up image of a true educational specialist and follow pedagogical tact and ethics.