Formation of Technical and Technological Competence Among Future Engineers-Educators in the Process of Professional Training: Research Results

Abstract

Scientific and technological progress determines the transition to high-tech production, innovative development of the economy, which creates new requirements for the training of qualified labour and the need to modernize engineering and pedagogical education with the strengthening of the technical and technological component of the professional competence of the engineer-teacher. The article reflects the stages, content, processes and research tools for the formation of technical and technological competence in future engineers-teachers in the process of professional training. The analysis allowed the authors of the study to determine the content of the technical and technological activity of the engineer-teacher, to carry out a conceptual and terminological identification of basic definitions, and then to determine the essence of the technical and technological competence of engineers-teachers, the structure of which is a system of interrelated components – motivational-value, communicative, cognitive and reflective. The authors refer to the theoretical foundations of the study as a set of methodological approaches to the formation of technical and technological competence: competence-based, practice-oriented, activity-oriented, personality-oriented, com- municative, integrative. As a result of the study, the diagnostic tools have been improved in the context of determining the criteria (motivational-value, cognitive, communicative and reflexive), indicators and levels of formation of the technical and technological competence of future engineers-teachers. Attention is focused on the substantiation and development of pedagogical conditions for the formation of technical and technological competence in future engineers and teachers. The mechanisms and tools by means of which the complex of pedagogical conditions in the process of professional training of students of the experimental group was realized are described. The effectiveness of the developed pedagogical conditions, their productive influence on the formation of all components of technical and technological competence are shown. It was revealed that only under the condition of the comprehensive implementation of the presented pedagogical conditions there is an effective formation of the technical and technological competence of future engineers-teachers, which is confirmed by the methods of mathematical statistics. The directions of further research of the problem of the formation of technical and technological competence of future engineers-teachers in the plane of integration of economies, further modernization of production, digitalization trends in all spheres of public life are indicated.