Формування професійно-значущих якостей особистості фахівця з технології харчування в умовах дуальної освіти

The article considers the main ways of formation of professionally important qualities of a future food technology specialist in the light of specific features of the given profession. The activities of a food industry specialist are presented as multifunctional and multicomponent. The main functions of the activity are listed. These functions of activity include: organizational, operational, prognostic, informational. The implementation of each function is considered as a necessary factor in the development of professionally significant personality traits of a future food technology specialist. There are six groups of qualities that must be possessed by a specialist in nutrition technology. Among them: cognitive (perception, memory, thinking, attention, imagination), communicative (attentiveness, personal culture, professional communication, interaction with customers, consumers, colleagues, management), competence (awareness, diligence, dedication, commitment). efficiency, experience, professional self-determination and self-realization), emotional and volitional (initiative, activity, optimism, politeness, tact), organizational (punctuality, concentration, discipline), motivational and value (sustainable motivational values and guidelines, professional interests, positive motivation, perseverance in achieving the goal), moral and psychological humanism, honesty, decency, tolerance, responsibility for their own actions and deeds). The role and place of each of the groups of professionally significant qualities of nutrition technology specialists, their significance for work in production are analyzed. Dual education has been identified as an important aspect of the formation of professionally important personality traits of future specialists in food technology. Dual education provides high quality training in nutrition technology, continuity and consistency of all stages of learning, flexibility and variability of educational programs, adaptability and socialization of students to the working environment, creates appropriate conditions for personal development of students, development of their important professional qualities. It is emphasised that dual education creates the conditions for engaging enterprises into the training process. The peculiarities of the implementation of dual education are related to the alternation of periods of theoretical training and practical practice, updating the learning conditions, flexibility of the curriculum, taking into account the individual trajectory of development and the interests of each student.