FORMATION OF PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE OF FUTURE QUALIFIED WORKERS AS A PEDAGOGICAL ISSUE

The article of O.Parzhnytskyi is devoted to the issue of formation of professional competence of future turners, which is an important task in the context of modernization and development of education, providing its advancing nature and focus on growth of the economic potential of the state. According to the author, this is due to the fact that today a labor of metal turner is used in virtually all fields of industry, agriculture, transport, service sector. This raises its great economic importance as a profession of highly qualified workers. O.Parzhnytskyi reveals the main stages of study of professional and technical education, history of formation and development of the training system for working staff in Ukraine from the end of XIX to the beginning of XXІ century. The author also characterizes studies concerning various aspects of the methodology, pedagogy, psychology and methods of vocational education and training in connection with the challenges which are faced by the economy, education in the context of world globalization, international competition and labor market needs, and those works which disclose some aspects of identity formation of a professional, describe mental neoplasms, ensuring successful implementation of labor functions at each stage of professional development. O.Parzhnytskyi proves that such studies have provided separation of professional pedagogy as an independent branch of knowledge, have proved historical significance of the achievements of vocational education from the standpoint of humanistic and democratic ethics. The author pays great attention to the need in implementation of competency approach in professional training of future highly qualified workers. According to O.Parzhnytskyi, it is necessary to ensure effective professional training of graduates of professional and technical schools in professional environment, and it requires updating the content of educational subjects according to the intended outcome, variability of educational programs, forms, teaching technologies, use of teaching methods and organization of educational and productive activities of students. Overall generalization of pedagogical studies has allowed O.Parzhnytskyi to interpret the professional competence of future highly qualified workers as a set of interrelated characteristics of personality (knowledge, skills, methods of activity implementation, experience of the practical use of knowledge and skills, characteristics of thinking, providing the ability to make effective decisions, act rationally, etc.), necessary for the effective implementation of professional activity tasks.