Model of integration of competencies in a professionally-oriented education

Abstract

It is noted that in higher professional education there is a global trend of the growing number of students combining the process of studying at the University with employment in the workplace in order to form a basis for their future professional and specialized career. Modern researches of the existing educational standards reveal the fact that there are practically no models meeting the needs of a new perspective on the organization of professionally-oriented training. It is suggested that the topological description on the basis of the graph theory, namely the cognitive model which has already been tested in the study of such problems in education should be used as a theoretical and methodological basis of the study. The cognitive model allows to involve the available model descriptions of educational processes, namely, structural-dynamic descriptions interpreted in this case as logical-semantic and causal. A multi-circuit cognitive model of professionally-oriented education based on the integration of competencies is proposed. The authors propose a multi-circuit cognitive model of professionally-oriented education based on the integration of competencies. The Central place in the model is given to the target chain of factors: Integration of competences → Professional competences → Educational and production process. This model helps transmit and synchronize signals across all model contours, continuously initialize the target model functioning, and analyze the achieved level of professional competencies in the integration process. It is on this axis that all four contours of the model are strung, which eliminates the loss of the target determination of the structure. The model implements the principle of professional orientation of education. Thus it is possible to balance the advantages of the educational competences received as a result of educational process, as well as the peculiarities of the production competences generated in manufacturing by means of their integration. Professional competencies in the model do not dominate, but rather are the result of continuous integration of both educational and industrial competencies.