Forming Psychological Readiness of Economists: Pedagogical Background
Abstract
The existing Ukrainian system of economic education has a significant socio-pedagogical potential. A deeper study into the subject of psychological readiness of a future professional economist is required, to reveal innovational mechanisms of development and improvement of the economic education methods.
Consideration for qualification characteristics and working experiences of Ukrainian professional statisticians enables for determining the requirements to their professional education. The professional education system can be created once the professionally important qualities of future professionals are identified.
As a result of the analysis, psychological readiness is defined as an integrative quality and the condition of an individual, characterized by his/her functional orientation on professional work. The level of one's professional proficiency is determined by the availability of professional skills, the system of knowledge (theoretical and applied/professional ones), formed on the basis of skills, abilities, convictions, values and other moral and psychological qualities.
The following conclusions are made: the readiness is a complex and stable psychological phenomenon, being a dominating factor of human behavior in solving contradictions at personal level (I want - 1 must, I leant - I can); the problem of readiness is considered as a psychological one; psychological readiness has essential and functional components, being formed in various socio-economical activities and in the professional environment; the core of this phenomenon is its humanistic orientation on socio-economic protection and support of personal initiatives, seeking for economic comfort, and freedom, seeking for favorable conditions for mental enrichment, cultural development and creative socio-cultural work at individual and community level; psychological readiness in the higher education system can be formed once psychological and pedagogical conditions are established; psychological readiness, once formed in the higher education system, is a condition of the future successful self-realization of an individual; formation of psychological readiness is determined by the links between theoretical and practical components of the education system and by the specifics of organization of the education process.
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