Development of key competences of junior bachelors specialised in the Humanities within the person-oriented educational paradigm

The article describes the peculiarities of implementation of the person-oriented paradigm at an establishment of higher education. It has been established that the person-oriented teaching is based on such an organization of the interaction between the subjects of the teaching / learning process, when the maximum possible conditions for the development of this process participants' abilities of self-education, self-determination, independence and self-realization in the sphere of professional activity are created. The purpose of the article is to characterize the person-oriented educational paradigm as a major component of the development of the key competences of junior bachelors specialised in the Humanities. The objectives of the study are as follows: to clarify the content of the concepts “person-oriented teaching”, “person-oriented approach"; to formulate conceptual features of the person-oriented education at an establishment of higher education under modern conditions; to specify the content of the process of the development of the key competences of junior bachelors specialised in the Humanities through the prism of the person-oriented approach. To achieve the aim of the study and to solve the designated issues, to check the starting points in the research, a set of methods of theoretical and empirical nature is used: analysis of scientific literature on the research topic; data collection and diagnostics; comparative and prognostic methods. It is summarized that the person-oriented approach is a methodological position in the pedagogical sphere which relies on a system of interconnected concepts and ideas, forms and methods, and allows providing the processes of person's self-discovery, self-improvement and self-realization, as well as the development of his / her uniqueness and individuality. When using this approach at a higher education institution, the tertiary teacher focuses on the student's personality, making major efforts for his / her development. Thus, according to the new educational paradigm, the education results are not knowledge, skills or abilities. The main education results are competences. The development of competences is now taking place in the context of each student's orientation towards creating his or her own individual educational trajectory. It is summarized that the individual educational trajectory of junior bachelors specialised in the Humanities is a person's individual way of self-realization in the process of learning, which is manifested in conscious decision-making and choosing the best variants of acting.