Abstract
The work of the seaman is characterized by isolation from the land, high probability of emergency, implementation of professional duties in extreme conditions. Life of the crew and safety of the vessel depend on the accuracy of seamen’s actions that’s why the need of improving seamen’s professional training is brought to light. The carried-out analysis of scientific literature, sea, and educational normative documents has defined the specifics of seamen’s professional activity, which includes knowledge, communication with people, fast decision-making for ensuring buoyancy of the vessel and safety of the crew in extreme conditions. It has been defined that successful activity of the seaman depends on professional knowledge, skills, as well as professional and personal qualities and the created meanings which are set to be shaped in the course of professional training in higher educational institution. The experimental research with a view to defining the relation of sea profile graduates to the world and future professional activity is carried out. The following personal qualities necessary for the seamen’s successful professional activity are delineated: ability to system thinking, leadership skills, communicative culture, multilingualism, morality, creativity, psychological stability during the work in the conditions of uncertainty, aspiration to cooperation. The need of improving seamen’s training in the educational process of higher educational institution is revealed. The new paradigm of higher education that focuses on the realization of internal reserves of the personality is represented: the formation of personal qualities along with knowledge, skills which constitute professional conceptosphere of sea graduates. It is recommended to reflect the shaping of personal qualities and meanings in the educational standard and programs of sea graduates’ professional training.
Highlights
Today, new methods and ways of modernizing the system of the higher education are evolving
It has been defined that successful activity of the seaman depends on professional knowledge, skills, as well as professional and personal qualities and the created meanings which are set to be shaped in the course of professional training in higher educational institution
The objective of our research is to reveal the specifics of seamen’s professional training
Summary
New methods and ways of modernizing the system of the higher education are evolving. The shaping of personal qualities, professional knowledge, skills gives a boost to the development of sea direction at the level when the future graduate of this profile creatively thinks in any conditions and under any circumstances. Professional activity of the navigator is carried out in special conditions because of isolation from the land. It is connected with night shifts, physical and information activity, danger and risk, emergency situations which require an immediate assessment and decision-making, and assumes the formation of special personal qualities. The specifics of navigators’ professional activity make us rethink the principles of training of sea profile graduates in the conditions of higher educational institution
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