FEATURES OF PERSONALITY-CENTERED LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES

Abstract

One of the approaches to organizing learning at higher educational institutions, which will contribute to young people’s life self-determination, the development of their subjectivity, cultural identification and socialization, are personality-centered technologies of organizing the educational process. Humanization and democratization of modern society, modern tendencies in the sphere of human socialization require improving the primary directions of transiting to a humanistic paradigm aimed at the individual’s development and self-fulfillment in the social and cultural environment. According to the tendencies outlined, the professional training system at higher educational institutions uses personality-centered educational technologies aimed at ensuring future specialists’ professional and personal efficiency and social competitiveness. The purpose of the academic paper is to determine the features of the primary tendencies in using personality-centered learning technologies at higher educational institutions. Methodology. In the course of the research, the analytical and bibliographic method was used to study the scientific literature on applying personality-centered learning technologies. At the same time, induction, deduction, analysis, synthesis of information, system-structural, comparative, logical-linguistic methods, abstraction, and idealization were applied to study and process data. By the way, the research authors also conducted a questionnaire in online mode to practically clarify the most important issues related to personality-centered learning at higher educational institutions. Results. Based on the research results, the primary and most important theoretical aspects of applying technologies of personality-centered learning at higher educational institutions were established. Along with this, the standpoints of scientists and heads of higher educational institutions regarding the key aspects of this issue were also investigated.