DEVELOPING A MEDICAL-PEDAGOGICAL ORIENTATION FOR TEACHER TRAINING IN VOCATIONAL EDUCATION

Abstract

Educational policy in 21 century offers a health-saving model of the pedagogical process at all levels and directions. It is important in the direction of modern teacher training to develop personal responsibility for the results of professional activity, which includes the responsibility to maintain the health of all participants in the educational process. To date, there are about a hundred definitions of the concept of “health”; many of its components are highlighted. “Health” is considered by researchers in terms of different concepts – both humanitarian and natural science ones. In this regard, it is necessary to orient professional education towards interdisciplinarity, integration of natural science and humanitarian knowledge. The system-forming factor in solving this issue is the development of medical-pedagogical direction in professional education, search and scientific substantiation of conditions, principles and technologies of its implementation, formation of medical-pedagogical competence of a future teacher. This direction in teacher training will be a scientific basis in prevention of diseases and asocial behavior of students, formation of healthy lifestyle culture and safe development of society. The article presents the history of integration of medicine, pedagogy and psychology; basic concepts of the studied topic; pedagogical conditions and structure of professional readiness for medical and pedagogical activity in professional education.