DISCIPLINE AS A SOCIALLY SIGNIFICANT QUALITY OF PERSONALITY OF A STUDENT – FUTURE TEACHER OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION

Abstract

The article reveals a problem of studying discipline as a socially significant personality quality. The purpose of the study is to identify the ways to develop discipline as a socially oriented and significant quality of a student. The problem is considered through the prism of professional and pedagogical activity as a special type of social activity. The presented theoretical review of the literature allows concluding that discipline is not innate but is formed through education as a multicomponent, multidimensional, integrative property. As a personality quality of a student (a future teacher of vocational education), discipline is an integral part of professional acmeological potential, which provides the opportunity to achieve the highest level of individual development in future professional and pedagogical activities. Diagnostics reveal an average level of discipline formation as a personality quality of students, problems with understanding the essence and nature of discipline. The difficulties associated with the need to observe discipline, obey, and control oneself are high. It is shown that discipline is likely to be developed in the professional education environment, using the entire arsenal of forms, means and methods of teaching and upbringing.