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DOI: 10.15507/1991-9468.082.020.201601.082-087
HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE CONTEXT OF FORMATION OF PROFESSIONAL THINKING OF STUDENTS
Irina V. Taraskina
(associate professor, Chair of Psychology, Institute of History and Sociology, Ogarev Mordovia State University (68, Bolshevistskaya St., Saransk, Russia), Ph.D. (Psychology), ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0975-5154, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Introduction: the article examines the current state of higher education. The author discusses the possibility of formation of professional thinking of students in the process of organizing and conducting educational process at the University. Organization of study at the University is a complex managerial and technological process. All substantial components of this process, vzaimoponimanie, complement each other that provides a focused, comprehensive manner to build it. The first and basic procedural understanding of the learning process in higher education is his perception of how the educational process at the level of all other components – the target, the subject-object, content, technology, effective. We cannot forget that teaching students is focused on achieving other goals of educational process – the success of socialization of specialists in modern conditions and the self-development of man as the subjec t of activity, personality, individuality.
Materials and Methods: to solve the set tasks were used the following research methods: studying and analysis of philosophical, psycho-pedagogical and methodical literature on the research problem; monitoring the educational process; questionnaires, interviews with teachers and students; peer evaluation of research materials; address the training and professional issues; mathematical methods of data processing of the experiment.
Results: the author reveals the theoretical (rational) thinking as the basis of professionalism. Special attention is paid to objective and subjective psychological conditions of forming of professional thinking of future specialists. The results of the study can be used in the formation of educational policy in higher education.
Discussion and conclusions: thus, it becomes obvious that professional education should focus on training specialists with General knowledge that will help them to independently, critically and creatively to think, develop beliefs and defend them, regardless of his chosen profession, to confidently engage in social relations, achieving results with minimal time and cost, capable to self-improvement, self-change, active adaptation in the labour market.
Keywords: professional thinking; professional activity; higher education; psychological conditions; formation; students; theoretical thinking
For citation: Taraskina IV. Higher education in the context of formation of professional thinking of students. Integratsiya obrazovaniya = Integration of Education. 2016; 1(20):82-87. DOI: 10.15507/1991-9468.082.020.201601.082-087
