Preparing students for upbringing activity at higher education institution: vector for contemporary development

Abstract

Despite the fact that effective practices of preparing students for upbringing activities persist in contemporary activities of higher education institutions, research evidence confirms the unsatisfactory state of preparedness of future pedagogues for upbringing tasks. The aim of the article is to analyse the difficulties and resources related to the improvement of vocational education and training in the aspect of the implementation of modern training tasks. What has become the methodological basis of the study are the provisions of Lyudmila Novikova's scientific school on the systemic approach in upbringing, in the social theory of upbringing in the context of socialisation by Anatoliy Mudrik, network theory. The main problems of the current state of preparation of future pedagogues to upbringing activities are defined (reduction of quantitative and qualitative content of theoretical and practical training of future pedagogues to upbringing activities; discrepancy of published educational literature on the theory and methodology of upbringing to topical tasks of upbringing activities; social immaturity of students, poor teacher training in the theory and practice of upbringing and other). The programme of changes in the improvement of the analysed problem is proposed – change in the targets in the direction of strengthening the subjective component, development of the system of upbringing work in a higher education institution with professional-pedagogic orientation; change in the design of educational programmes. Conditions for the implementation of the proposed changes – systemic investigation of topical issues of upbringing in the context of training future pedagogues for upbringing activities – are outlined; forming an effective feedback mechanism "higher education institution – school – higher education institution"; developing network training formats; creating a bank of technologies for practical training in a hybrid, distance format; updating the information resource of training; saturating the educational space of higher education institution with life in a higher education institution, meaningful from a professional point of view, interesting.