Readiness For Learning As A Component Of The Professional Culture

Abstract

The article deals with the relationship of such terms as "readiness for learning", "professional culture", "effectiveness of professional and educational activities". It is noted that human capital is a systemic factor in the development of the new economy based on knowledge and professional competence and professional culture of a specialist. Under the conditions of professional education continuity readiness for learning determines the processes of professional development and forming of professional culture of a specialist. Professional culture as a part of the overall culture of the individual is directly linked to the activities of the individual. The criterion for assessing the professional culture of the individual is the productivity of activity expressed in terms of the level and quality of the process and the results of the activity as well as the ability of the individual of self-improvement and self-development. At the statistic level significant differences in the level of readiness for learning as a component of professional culture are established among schoolchildren, students and specialists with different work experience; the relationship between the indicator of readiness to learn with the performance indicator of educational and professional activity of schoolchildren, students and specialists of pedagogical profile; the dynamics of the readiness indicator to learn in the process of education in higher school and professional activities. The indicator of readiness for learning serves as a criterion of the level of professional culture and can be used in the process of qualitative and quantitative analysis of the laws and mechanisms of professional development.