PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL RESEARCH AND ADJUSTMENT OF PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS OF HIGHER EDUCATION ACQUIRES

Abstract

The article reveals some psychological-pedagogical aspects of training students of higher education, research and correction of their professional interests. The psychological and pedagogical literature on the specified problem was analyzed and problematic aspects were identified. In the research, it was determined, that professional interests arise and are formed during the period of professional training and are a multifaceted personal development, with characteristics (breadth, stability, dynamism, intensity) that are related to abilities and motivation. Forms and methods of complex organization of the educational process are presented, which were used for the effective formation of professional competences of students of higher education and methods of stimulating their interests in the future profession in preschool education. Emphasis is placed on the effective use of such methods of classroom work as setting problem situations and tasks, research work, analysis of tasks and achievements of advanced pedagogical experience, students’ performance of mini-researches on a certain topic, review of video presentations on certain issues of the educational process in preschool education institutions. Special attention in the article is paid to game simulation and business game as a simulation method of training organization. Based on the obtained results, it was proved that the professional interests of future specialists in preschool education are formed as a personal educational formation in educational-cognitive and educational-practical activities. In the end, the article summarizes a systematic approach to educational work, which corrects the cognitive motivation and professional interest of students of higher education in the future profession in preschool education.
 Keywords: preschool worker; student; higher education; professional interest; training; motivation; forms; methods; game modeling; simulation reception.