Advanced pedagogic support for the formation of self-development competence in university freshmen

Abstract

Among the mandatory requirements for the implementation of the main professional educational programmes in higher education is the formation of a universal self-development competence, which provides for forecasting, building and implementing the self-development trajectory that best meets their personal needs and aspirations. However, the results of a sociological study show that most university freshmen are unable to predict and implement the trajectory of self-development and note the lack of opportunities in this matter from teachers. One of the assistance types to university students can be advanced pedagogic support for the formation of self-development competence in university freshmen. The uniqueness of pedagogic support, conceptual foundations of which were developed by Oleg Gazman, is that it determines students' self-determination in a situation of choice and the subsequent independent solution of their problems. The anticipatory nature of pedagogic support for the formation of self-development competence in university freshmen is to provide students with a reason to think even before they have a problem. At the moment when a difficult moment appears in their real life, they already have a set of methods and techniques for its successful resolution. As a result of the theoretical research a refined definition of advanced pedagogic support for the formation of self-development competence in university freshmen is proposed from the position of the existential approach (Mikhail Rozhkov).