GENERAL CULTURAL KEY COMPETENCE AS A BASIS FOR FUTURE SPECIALIST TRAINING

Abstract

In the article, taking into account the leading global and Ukrainian trends in the formation of general and professional competencies of the individual, general cultural competence is characterized as key while training specialists in the agricultural sector.
 The purpose of the research is to reveal, based on the generalization of theoretical foundations, the peculiarities of the content and structure of specialists’ general cultural competence, to substantiate the specifics of the formation of this competence among the graduates of agricultural institutions.
 It has been proven that general cultural competence, unlike other competencies, has a permanent character. So, if professional competence can be short-term, then key competencies are used by the individual throughout his life, while such competencies help the specialist in acquiring new competencies, which, in turn, allow him to develop and reach new heights of professional development.
 General human culture and characteristic features of national culture, the foundations of spiritual and moral relations and social phenomena, traditions and the ability to practically apply them in a variety of social relations, ideas about the scientific picture of the world, as well as personality qualities, the presence of experience in the field of development of the agrarian sphere as a cultural educational space.
 So, if you synthesize all the data of the process of formation of general cultural competence, their components are defined as value self-orientations on the self-assessment of the individual, motivational, and volitional components of the specialist’s competence. Individually, the overall cultural competence of an individual is revealed as professional self-awareness, self-acceptance as a professional in the agricultural industry; permanent self-determination; self-development of professional abilities; self-projection, building one’s professional growth strategy, implementing axiological foundations of one’s professional life, acquiring new qualities, mastering new professionally important abilities, or a continuous change in the structure of professionally crucial socio-cultural features that developed earlier.