READINESS FOR THE CHOICE OF PEDAGOGICAL PROFESSION AS A SCIENTIFIC CATEGORY

Abstract

The subject of the research is readiness to the choice of pedagogical profession. The objective research is to reveal the essence, structure, criteria and factors of readiness to the choice of pedagogical profession. The data for the study are obtained through the analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature on the problem of readiness, readiness to choose a profession and readiness to choose a pedagogical profession, analysis of statistical data of admission campaign of Russian universities, study of teaching experience in forming readiness to choose a profession, analysis of the results of empirical research on the problem. Based on the analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature on the problem of research, statistical data, study of pedagogical experience: formulated its own understanding of readiness for the choice of pedagogical profession as a new type of educational result in the system of continuous pedagogical education; the structure of readiness for the choice of pedagogical profession, including value-motivational and operational parameters, was identified; the criterial apparatus for evaluating the level of readiness to choose the teaching profession has been developed; the complex of objective and subjective factors of readiness for the choice of pedagogical profession has been identified and described. The structure and factors of readiness for the choice of pedagogical profession presented in the study can become the basis for the development of educational programs for pupils of pedagogical classes, students of pedagogical colleges and pedagogical universities. The presented criterial apparatus of readiness for the choice of pedagogical profession can be used to create methods for assessing the current level of readiness and its further formation among schoolchildren and students at all levels of continuous pedagogical education: pedagogical class – pedagogical college – pedagogical university (institute).