HUMAN CAPITAL OF THE SUBJECT OF EDUCATIONAL PROCESS OF THE POSITION OF THE COGNITIVE PARADIGM: STRUCTURE AND CHARACTERISTICS

Abstract

The issue of effective development and application of human capital of educational subjects is considered today from different conceptual bases, approaches and positions of scientists. Human capital has been studied quite well in economic and sociological science and practice, but has not been studied from a psychological and pedagogical standpoint, including cognitive abilities, personal characteristics, realized in professional activities. The purpose of this study is to determine the structure and describe the main characteristics of the human capital of a student as an active subject of the educational process formed during professional training at a university. The research methodology is based on the understanding of human capital in line with the cognitive paradigm, where the mechanisms of cognition that determine the assimilation of scientific knowledge, conceptual points of view of educational subjects are developed in a cultural and value dialogue, which determines the image of the personal and professional picture of the world. The conducted analysis of approaches to understanding human capital allowed us to identify the socio-philosophical, psychological and pedagogical, sociological, economic approaches. The author’s understanding of the definition of “human capital of education subjects” is presented and its key components (cognitive, personal, socio-cultural and health-preserving components) are substantiated from the position of the cognitive paradigm. The identified components and their characteristics will allow developing a diagnostic tool for assessing the human capital of an education subject based on the basic principles of the cognitive approach, describing the mechanisms of its development in the educational space and testing technologies for the development of human capital in different educational environments. The results obtained, indicating specific characteristics, will contribute to the successful formation of human capital of education subjects in a rapidly developing labor market.