THE PORTRAIT OF THE FUTURE SPECIALISTIN THE CONTEXT OF MODERN HIGHER SCHOOL

Anna N. Gusarova¹, Igor A. Zagaynov², Maria L. Blinova³, Julia A. Dorogova⁴*

¹Asst. Prof., Interregional Open Social Institute, Russia, nauka@mosi.ru
²Asst. Prof., Interregional Open Social Institute, Mari State University, Russia, zagainov-igor@nm.ru
³Asst. Prof., Interregional Open Social Institute, Mari State University, Russia, airam8@mail.ru
⁴Asst. Prof., Mari State University, Russia, julya_dorogova@rambler.ru
*Corresponding author

Abstract
The forthcoming changes in the field of higher education, which are connected with the introduction of the professional standards, form requirements on the theoretically substantiated system of the training of future specialists. Due to this fact, the personality of competitive graduate student plays the center stage.  In the graduate student’s professional structure practical skills will be more valuable than theoretical knowledge. However, the formation of the ability to put gained knowledge into practice is possible only relying on the basis, which was made earlier by competence building approach. In connection with it, we have made an attempt to study and to form the additional but necessary competences of the future specialist, using the newest IT-technologies. The experimentally-confirmed conclusions prove the necessity of paying attention to the ethical and gender constituent part of the future specialist’s personality. This process becomes more topical due to the claims, which were set up by the Government of the Russian Federation to the institutes of higher education of our country and which are presented in the “Strategy 2020”, and also due to the aspiration of the Russian institutions to satisfy the criteria of the Monitoring of rendering of educational services.
Taking the above-mentioned facts into account, we have worked out the criteria (value-meaningful, gnostical and activity-behavioral) and the levels (threshold, average, high), appraising the maturity of the separated competence, and also the main components (for gender: stereotypes, sexism, consciousness and self-consciousness, gender behavior; for ethic: mental and ethical reflection, moral (ethic) cognition and consciousness, ethic coordination of behavior).

The main means of achievement of the stated aim has been the author's interactive special course, which has been involved in the program of training of students. The empirical material, which had been collected for several years, and all the arrangements, based on this material, has allowed creating the “new” kind of a graduate student. Basing on the stable foundation of the formed competences, one can boldly develop practical skills, which are marked out by the Ministry of Labor in the professional standards. These professional standards, in turn, will become the base of the Federal State Educational Standards of higher education.

Keywords: competence, professional standards, future specialist.