Professional self-determination of high school students in rural and urban schools

Abstract

The article formulates the problem of insufficient knowledge of the patterns of professional self-determination of high school students in rural schools. The purpose of the study is formulated, which is to identify the features of professional self-determination of rural schoolchildren of the 11th grades, based on the analysis of their professional interests and self-assessment of the formation of professional skills. In accordance with this goal, the following research objectives are defined: to identify and compare the professional interests of high school students in rural and urban schools; to identify and compare the level of formation of professional skills of high school students in rural and urban schools; to analyze the relationship between the level of development of professional interests and the formation of professional skills in high school students in rural and urban schools. The study revealed that high school students of rural schools are significantly more interested in the professions of «man – nature» and are poorly inter-ested in the professions of «man-man»; high school students of urban schools demonstrate the opposite orientation: they show interest in the pro-fessions of «man-man» and are practically not interested in the professions of «man nature»; rural schoolchildren show the highest interest in the pro-fessions of «man-sign», and high school students of urban schools show the highest interest in the professions of «man-man»; the same and low in-terest in the professions of «man-technique» and «man-artistic image» is recorded for both groups of schoolchildren. Differences and coincidences in the level of formation of professional skills in rural and urban schoolchildren have been established, they are as follows: rural schoolchildren have significantly lower professional skills in relation to the activities of «man-man» and «man-technique» than urban schoolchildren; professional skills in relation to the activities of «man-nature» and «man-artistic image» are equally low in both groups of schoolchildren; – professional skills in relation to the activities of «man-sign» are equally well formed in both groups of schoolchildren; in general, the level of formation of professional skills in rural schoolchildren is significantly lower than in urban ones.