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DOI: 10.15507/1991-9468.102.025.202101.159-179
The Study into Theoretical and Methodological Readiness of Defectology Students to Pursue Master Degree Programmes
Alla V. Zakrepina
Head of the Laboratory of Psychological and Pedagogical Research and Technology of Special Education for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities, Institute of Special Education of the Russian Academy of Education (8 Bld. 1 Pogodinskaya St., Moscow 119121, Russian Federation), Dr.Sci. (Ped.), Corresponding Member of the RAE, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5757-2371, Researcher ID: J-2047-2016, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Elena A. Shilova
Senior Researcher of the Laboratory of Psychological and Pedagogical Research and Technology of Special Education for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities, Institute of Special Education of the Russian Academy of Education (8 Bld. 1 Pogodinskaya St., Moscow 119121, Russian Federation), Cand.Sci. (Ped.), Associate Professor, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4579-5631, Researcher ID: Q-9652-2018, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Elena A. Strebeleva
Chief Researcher of the Laboratory of Psychological and Pedagogical Research and Technology of Special Education for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities, Institute of Special Education of the Russian Academy of Education (8 Bld. 1 Pogodinskaya St., Moscow 119121, Russian Federation), Dr.Sci. (Ped.), Professor, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7291-3146, Researcher ID: S-1426-2018, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Introduction.Training a competitive specialist at the level of a master program is an important educational goal. The problem of the continuity of educational levels as a condition for the quality of graduate training is debatable, because the focus of such discussions is often around the methodological components of the educational program, rather than the conceptual guidelines for professional growth. The aim of the research was to study the level of studentsʼ readiness to follow master degree programs in the field of special (defectological) education.
Materials and Methods. The research constitutes a theoretical analysis of the problem of readiness of defectology students to pursue the master degree level of education. In the course of empirical research, the results of a questionnaire and self-assessment were used. The survey included 68 master degree students of 4 master degree programs. Statistical processing of the results was carried out using the Statistica 10.0 software package for the Windows.
Results. The authors found that the target guidelines for the reconstruction of the professional training of master students in the field of special (defectological) education is a set of expected knowledge, skills, and abilities from the standpoint of modern requirements and social need for the activities of a specialist in the changing conditions of education, upbringing and development of children with disabilities; the designing of a master program requires the actualization of theoretical and methodological training, taking into account its extrapolation to the level of implementation of applied professional competencies in accordance with the modern needs of society and the dynamics of the educational labor market.
Discussion and Conclusion. The results obtained facilitate the development of professional training of master students in the field of special (defectological) education and allow us to consider theoretical and methodological readiness to pursue a master course in terms of continuity of educational tasks and the continuity of educational levels that make up the fundamental principles for the preparation of a competitive graduate.
Keywords: higher school, reconstruction of the education system, masterʼs degree, theoretical and methodological readiness, special (defectological) education, student, professional competencies
Acknowlegtments: The authors express their appreciation to the reviewers who conducted a blind anonymous review of this research work.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
For citation: Zakrepina A.V., Shilova E.A, Strebeleva E.A. The Study into Theoretical and Methodological Readiness of Defectology Students to Pursue Master Degree Programmes. Integratsiya obrazovaniya = Integration of Education. 2021; 25(1):159-179. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15507/1991-9468.102.025.202101.159-179
Contribution of the authors:
A. V. Zakrepina – scientific guidance, theoretical analysis of literature on the research problem, development of questionnaires for experimental research, interpretation of data, critical analysis, preparation of the article.
E. A. Shilova – initiative of scientific research, theoretical analysis of literature on the problem of research, development of questionnaires for experimental research, statistical processing of research results, interpretation of data, preparation of the text.
E. A. Strebeleva – structuring the methodical part of the article; development of principles for processing experimental data, participating in processing the research results, developing questionnaires for specialists.
All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
Submitted 31.10.2020; approved after reviewing 21.12.2020;
accepted for publication 30.12.2020.
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