POTENTIAL OF THE EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT OF A TRANSPORT UNIVERSITY IN THE FORMATION OF MODERN TECHNICAL INTELLIGENTSIA: SOCIO-CULTURAL AND COMPETENCE-BASED APPROACHES

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the process of forming a modern technical intellectual-a future railway engineer. The authors’ formulation of the key concept is given. The authors study approaches (socio-cultural, competence-based) to the definition of technical intelligentsia, and focuses on the complex interdisciplinary nature of its definitions. The problems of determining its significance and specificity in the context of professional training of future engineers are studied. The article examines the socio-cultural and professional potential of corporate competencies of “Russian Railways” JSC that determine the formation of an engineer – technical intellectual. The article analyzes the possibilities of the educational environment of a transport university in the formation of the studied personal quality of a future engineer on the basis of search work, and provides empirical results. The article outlines the prospects of work on the convergence of humanistic dominants and corporate competencies in the educational environment of the university as the basic foundations for the formation of modern technical intelligentsia.