Cultural approach to the formation of professional competences of the specialist in the realities of modern education

Abstract

The problem of a cultural approach realization to the specialist professional competences formation in the realities of the modern education is discussed in the article.The present realities which are characterized by the request of the society for a “new type specialist” give new requirements for education. Modern education can be supposed effective only when it, by forming the professional competences which are necessary for human life, will be comprehended from a cultural point of view as a person’s entry into culture. The article reveals the key competences which are necessary for any specialist in the present day realities, thanks to which his socialization and self-realization processes will proceed successfully. The historical background and universal conceptual ideas of the culturological approach realization to the specialist professional competences formation in the realities of the modern education without paying attention to the direction and profile of the specialist training are discovered in the article.The aim of the research is to characterize the essential ideas and opportunities for the cultural approach realization to the specialist professional competences formation in the realities of the modern education. Our research methodology was based on the application of the theoretical and practical methods complex, including such methods as the special cultural, philosophical, psychological, pedagogical and scientific-methodical literature extensive study on the stated problem, as well as educational and methodical documentation study of educational organizations based on analysis, synthesis, theoretical modeling; professional students development observation and analysis (with the help of questionnaires and tests made by the authors of this article). As the research result we made a conclusion that the specialist professional formation in the realities of the modern education goes simultaneously with the process of his humanitarian and personal development. Personal qualities (attitudes, motives, intelligence, emotional and volitional sphere of a person) determine the quality of his professional competences formation. The educational organization task is to create the favourable conditions for the student “entry” into the culture, it means to form a creative, culturologically filled educational environment for making an inimitable and unique professional and personal development of the modern specialist pathway in each case as the Culture Creator.