PEDAGOGICAL ASPECTS OF PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL SELF-DEVELOPMENT OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Abstract

Modern society is faced with a problem of the lack of highly qualified specialists capable of making non-standard independent decisions, ready to quickly and flexibly respond to changing external economic, political, social conditions and labor market requirements. The key quality of such a specialist is the ability for professional and personal self-development, which is formed, first of all, in the process of professional training at a university. The article discusses issues of students’ self-development from the point of view of the pedagogical potential of the university and the possibilities of pedagogical support for this process, defines the concept of professional and personal self-development, describes its essence and structure. Pedagogical support based on the integration of the pedagogical potential of the university and the personal potential of students is considered as the main form of pedagogical work to support the professional and personal self-development of students; the forms and methods of pedagogical support are described. Particular attention is paid to the organizational and pedagogical conditions for the effectiveness of pedagogical support. The conclusion is substantiated about the need to improve pedagogical work in universities in order to develop professional and personal self-development skills among future specialists.