PROFESSIONAL PREPAREDNESS OF SOCIOCULTURAL SPECIALISTS FOR CREATIVE INTERACTION IN A DIGITAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

. The article addresses a problem of professional preparedness of sociocultural specialists for creative interaction in a digital learning environment. It provides a rationale for the necessity of raising preparedness of sociocultural specialists for creative interaction in a digital learning environment, which is determined by the interconnection of the functions of their professional activities, structural components of creative activities, characteristics of stages of creative interaction. The key types of professional training most relevant for this issue are addressed: sociocultural, pedagogical, information and digital, as well as professionally significant qualities of these specialists, exhibited by them in the process of creative interaction. A comprehensive overview of the properties of the digital learning environment and its structural components preconditional to the process of creative interaction within it is provided. The author elaborates the concept of “preparedness of sociocultural specialists for creative interaction in a digital learning environment”, which serves as a “tool” of their professional activities; the article defines its structural components, indicators and criteria. The findings of this study could prove useful in enhancing the organization of the system of professional training of these specialists.