THE FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT ISSUE OF KEY PERSONAL COMPETENCIES IN THE PROCESS OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

Abstract

The research actualizes the need to transition the domestic theory and practice of professional education to the methodological support of the competence approach, which enables the integrity of various links of the system and its compliance with world and European standards. It expresses the social need for highly qualified specialists of a new type. They should have humanistic and humanitarian thinking, the ability for self-development and self-realization formed by professional culture, and the basics of communication in the chosen field. The specialists’ key competences, which are considered a mandatory result of each stage of professional education in any field and specialty, include the following: educational and cognitive competence (attitude and solving cognitive problems; productive and reproductive cognition, non-standard solutions; independence of cognitive activity; gaining knowledge from various sources of information; inclination to analytical activity, etc.); general cultural competence (the ability to navigate in the modern socio-cultural space; analysis and assessment of the achievements of ethnic, European and world science and culture; mastery of the means and technologies of intercultural interaction; appropriate use of speech skills and communication norms; self-education focused on the system of individual, national and universal human values; knowledge and implementation of models of tolerant behavior in conditions of socio-cultural diversity); social competence (knowledge of the functioning mechanisms of social institutions and one’s own place in them; designing one’s life strategies taking into account the interests of social groups served by the chosen profession; productive cooperation with work partners; mastering technologies for constructive conflict resolution); entrepreneurial competence (correlation of one’s own economic interests with the existing interests and needs of other people; organization of collective work in the conditions of market relations; design and evaluation of business plans in the industry); ICT competence (reception, processing, issuance of information; transformation of information by electronic means; mastery of mass media and multimedia technologies; computer literacy); communicative competence (ability to establish and maintain contacts with other people; opportunities to change the depth and circle of communication, to understand and be understandable to partners in professional circumstances). A conclusion has been made regarding the need to form key competencies as universal for all industries and specialties. The prospects of scientific research have been determined for each type of selected competency with clarification of the specifics of their display in specific subject-professional areas.