Pedagogical Stimulation of University Students’ Social Competence Development by Means of Interdisciplinary Integration

Gulnara I Salyakhova,Roza A Valeeva

doi:10.5539/res.v7n5p186

Abstract

The most important component of social and economic development of the country is knowledge and information requiring mastery of higher education. The new paradigm of higher education is not training only to obtain specific knowledge but to learn to adapt to a qualitatively different conditions of life, to work in an ever-changing socio-economic environment. Successful career of the young specialist after graduation and application of acquired knowledge and skills in practice depend on the formation of key competencies in an educational institution. Nowadays Russian society demands specific results of vocational education meaning not only graduates’ professional knowledge but his practical readiness for activities in standard and non-standard situations of professional life. The article is devoted to special educational outcomes of vocational education in which knowledge is a necessary but not sufficient condition for achieving the required quality. It deals with the professional competence and its components such as vocational and key (basic) competences. The article describes the features of pedagogical stimulation of university students’ social competence development by means of interdisciplinary integration. It defines the concept “social competence” and describes pedagogical conditions for stimulation of university students’ social competence development. The study puts forward the indicators of social competence formation and presents the results of experimental work on university students’ social competence development.

Highlights

1.1 Actualizing the ProblemThe problem of future specialists’ readiness for self-responsibility and choice of action in the political, economic and cultural life is actualized in modern Russia
Important for the study was the issue of pedagogical stimulation mechanisms
We identified interdisciplinary integration as such means

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1.1 Actualizing the ProblemThe problem of future specialists’ readiness for self-responsibility and choice of action in the political, economic and cultural life is actualized in modern Russia. Among the competencies necessary for their successful functioning in the society special attention is paid to social competence This competence means constructive building one’s relationships with others; establishing and maintaining contacts; the ability to be responsible, to participate in making group decisions, to resolve conflict peacefully (Ivanenko et al, 2015). In this regard the development of social competence of students in the learning process at the university becomes an important and urgent task of higher education

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