On Strategic Orientation of Student Educational Activity

Abstract

The article deals with the research in the field of the strategic orientation of educational activities in higher education. The necessity of applying a student-centered approach in such studies is revealed. It is noted that the factors influencing the strategic orientation of the student educational activity relate either to the space of ‘due’ or to the space of ‘being’. The invariant core of the graduate competence model belongs to the target-oriented space of the ‘due’. It includes 12 clusters of competencies and describes the normative context of the strategic orientation of the student educational activity. The personal context of this orientation is formed on the basis of a va riety of students’ goals in the space of ‘being’. It is characterized by student’s ideas about the relative importance of the qualities that one will need in future after graduation. The technique of establishing a hierarchy of combined graduate qualities is described. This hierarchy is determined by the student’s goals, which can be reflected through the subjective significance of the considered qualities for one. The analysis of results showed that the gender of the student and the character of his future labour activity significantly influence one’s strategic orientation.