Development of Professional Mobility as Component of Professional Competence in Postgraduate Education System
Author`s Contribution:
- Lugansk Taras Schevchenko National University, Ukraine
Background and aim of study:
Fast-moving economic and information development
of the modern society, changes in content of
specialists’ professional activity and a quick renewal of
current knowledge, stipulate the necessity to develop
specialists' professional mobility for mastering new
skills and habits, the ability to get oriented in the
professional and social environment. This is the system
of postgraduate education that gives the possibility to
train a professionally mobile specialist who is able to
master new skills and habits as well as to improve the
current ones, orientate themselves strategically in the
professional and social environment in conditions of
new professions, and to foster their development.
So, professional mobility should be considered as a
component of professional competence that is
developed in the system of postgraduate education.
Research methods:
Results:
A set of approaches to studying professional mobility
has been already developed in the pedagogical
research. Thus, summarising the findings, the
following conclusion can be made. Professional
mobility is an integrative quality of a personality,
necessary to realise professional activity that provides
self-determination, self-realisation in life and work on
the grounds of the formed key competences and basic
professional (key) qualifications as well as a
personality’s urge to change not only themselves but
also their professional field and life environment.
Grounding on the competence approach in studying
professional mobility, scientists have reached a
conclusion that formation of a specialist’s professional
mobility is possible through competences development.
Professional competence is a total of knowledge, skills,
habits, ways of activity, professionally important
psychological qualities, which are necessary for a
specialist to realise their efficient professional activity.
Professional competence is also a mark and the main
criterion of professional readiness and ability to
accomplish one's own professional duties in conditions
of competition and demands of the modern society. In
its turn, improvement of professional competence
through development of professional mobility gives the
possibility to realise successfully various types of
professional activity, develop knowledge and practical
skills.
Development of a pedagogue’s professional mobility is
implied as a process of acquiring new competences,
knowledge, skills, habits and improving the current
ones, which they use or will use in their professional
activity. Namely postgraduate education is directed at
improving education and a person’s professional
training by extending, enlarging and renewing their
professional knowledge, skills and habits or getting
another profession or speciality on the basis of the
already acquired educational level and practical
experience. The usage of the competence approach in
postgraduate education presupposes applying such
teaching technologies in which all pedagogical
processes are aimed at differential development and
self-development of a personality.
In the modern conditions, professional mobility
presupposes a specialist’s mastering of competences
which provide flexibility, fast orientation in profession,
competitiveness at the labour market, readiness to
improve qualification, retraining and self-education.
Development of professional mobility in the
postgraduate education system is oriented not only at
extending, enlarging and renewing professional
knowledge, skills and habits but also at development of
pedagogical position and professionally important
qualities of specialists.
Conclusion:
Professional competence is an important quality of a
specialist. Competences are the main bases of a
specialist’s professional mobility formation.
Professional mobility as a component of professional
competence is an integral characteristic feature of a
personality that combines successful adaptation to the
professional environment, a personality’s formed
internal need for changes, readiness for selfimprovement, self-development and self-realisation
that provides stability of a specialist’s development and
active professional position.
The necessity of professional development mobility as
a component of professional competence in the
postgraduate education system is stipulated by the
changes which occur in our country due to a political
situation and renewal of the education content.
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DOI and UDC:
DOI: 10.26697/ijes.2019.2.20; UDC:37.091.12:005.963[-027.561[005.336.2-026.731]
Information about the authors:
Ptakhina Olga Mykolaivna – Doctor of Philosophy in
Pedagogy, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of
the Department of Public Service and Management of
Educational and Social Institutions, Lugansk Taras
Schevchenko National University, Starobilsk, Ukraine.