Specifics of sea graduates’ professional training in Russia

Abstract

The work of the seaman is characterized by isolation from the land, high probability of emergency, implementation of professional duties in extreme conditions. Life of the crew and safety of the vessel depend on the accuracy of seamen’s actions that’s why the need of improving seamen’s professional training is brought to light. The carried-out analysis of scientific literature, sea, and educational normative documents has defined the specifics of seamen’s professional activity, which includes knowledge, communication with people, fast decision-making for ensuring buoyancy of the vessel and safety of the crew in extreme conditions. It has been defined that successful activity of the seaman depends on professional knowledge, skills, as well as professional and personal qualities and the created meanings which are set to be shaped in the course of professional training in higher educational institution. The experimental research with a view to defining the relation of sea profile graduates to the world and future professional activity is carried out. The following personal qualities necessary for the seamen’s successful professional activity are delineated: ability to system thinking, leadership skills, communicative culture, multilingualism, morality, creativity, psychological stability during the work in the conditions of uncertainty, aspiration to cooperation. The need of improving seamen’s training in the educational process of higher educational institution is revealed. The new paradigm of higher education that focuses on the realization of internal reserves of the personality is represented: the formation of personal qualities along with knowledge, skills which constitute professional conceptosphere of sea graduates. It is recommended to reflect the shaping of personal qualities and meanings in the educational standard and programs of sea graduates’ professional training.