Formation of the Individual's Technological Culture in General Education and Professional School

Sergey Alekseevich Sedov

doi:10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n4s1p71

Abstract

In this survey we made an attempt to justify the technological culture of the person as a result of the development of basic educational programs in modern education and vocational school. Technological culture of the person is represented in the form of a two-tier structure: horizontal and vertical, where the horizontal one - is a substructure consisting of the technological vision, technological prowess and technological behavior, and the vertical structure shows the relationship of technological outlook, technological thinking and creative abilities of students. The article gives a review of the problems of the individual's technological culture's formation in the educational institutions and also promising areas for further researches are highlighted. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n4s1p71

Highlights

Rapid transition of Russian society to new forms of economic activity has led to an increase in the need of active, adventurous, competent and responsible professionals
Technological culture of personality is the result of mastering of the individual's technological culture of a society
Technological culture of a society is the level of a society's development, due to the advances in science and technology

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Introduction

Rapid transition of Russian society to new forms of economic activity has led to an increase in the need of active, adventurous, competent and responsible professionals. Market demand for the skilled employees, engineers has determined the social significance of technological education. Significant changes in the content of technological education are implemented through Federal (new) state educational standards. One of these changes should be called the public perception of the results of basic educational programs' development. Modern technological training at school, at a secondary vocational school and through higher education is focused on the occupational mobility of a young man and a wide variety of professional activities. Variety of competencies, which are required for skilled workers and engineers, has actualized the issue of highlighting the single method to measure the person's readiness to the world of labour. Structure and problems of its formation in educational institutions formed the basis of our study

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