Theoretical and methodological basis of the students professional self-determination formation within the educational cluster "school - university - enterprise" conditions

The relevance of this research is determined by the need of fundamental theoretical positions development that form the students’ professional self-determination quality within the conditions of various educational clusters, such as associations, that effectively train independent and socially active wide profle specialists for different spheres of social live. The article presents theoretical and methodological foundations of students professional self-determination formation within the educational cluster named «school-university-enterprise», including approaches, conditions, means, and methods required for development of the necessary professional self-determination components. Basic and substantial characteristics of the professional self-determination development process have been grounded in accordance with theoretical and practical views of modern science. The article draws attention to the stages of professional self-determination development in accordance with the periods required for students to develop its components. There have been extracted and described four criteria groups of research process that allow to evaluate the completeness of the students’ professional self-determination basic components formation.