Structural content analysis of professional consciousness

The article analyses the structure and content of professional consciousness. The category of “professional consciousness” has been determined as the key concept for psychology of education; it unites both subject-operational and motivational personal activity aspects. The concept of professional consciousness is regarded as a three components entity: meaning, sense, sensory tissue. The conceptual “meaning-sense” tandem has been analyzed within a variety of concepts. Professional consciousness has been defined as a form of consciousness of a personality which is filled with professional meanings, sense and meaningful content as well as sensory tissue.