PROFESSIONAL AWARENESS DEVELOPMENT AT LEARNING STAGE IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS: TRYING CONCEPTUALIZATION

Abstract

This scientific article is devoted to search the determinants of individual’s professional development during training phase. The author focuses on development of professional consciousness, substantiate its decisive role in  formative years of  future professionals, since the editing process determines the formation of human activity’s individual style , the development of professional creativity and progressive views, the formation of interests, values, motives, reflection.  The article stressed  problem of how to generate  towards of professional consciousness, to determine its places and meanings in the mechanism of personality’s  professional development. It had also estab­lished other factors of personality’s professional development – professional and personal qualities and professional competence, its interdependence is substantiated. Through the scientific analysis  of structure of professional consciousness and its constituent components – cognitive, reflective, axiological, motivational, affective blocks, the corresponding directions of professional consciousness development and their indicators are defined: awareness of professional reality; becoming a professional «I»; conscious evaluation of yourself as a specialist; awareness of professional values; determination of conscious professional motives; conscious experience of professional emotions; conscious avoidance of professional stress and burnout. Working with these determinants of professional development (development of professional-personal qualities and professional competence of a specialist)  and the development of professional consciousness, was developed and presented an author’s model of professional consciousness development. The author submits that  figures provided by review of the literature  enable to move on to the next stage – research into the professional consciousness’ development  with a view to developing appropriate effective training programs and optimizing the training process at the university