THE SPECIFICS OF THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPING A PROFESSIONAL IMAGE IN STUDENTS OF CREATIVE SPECIALTIES

Abstract

The article highlights a problem of forming a professional image among students mastering creative specialties in modern Russian universities. To solve this problem, the authors study the definition of the term “professional image”, take into account the specifics of the educational, and later professional activities by persons mastering the above-mentioned area of training. The work determines the place that this process occupies in the system of students’ professional and personal competencies. The possibilities of various educational activities organization forms in the process of this development are considered. The authors reveal factors that have the most significant impact on the effectiveness inherent in them in this sense. The article provides the most significant organizational and pedagogical conditions, which are to be observed to contribute to improving the developing process of the professional image in students.