The Activity of Teaching Engineer Cadres

Abstract

Considerable difficulties have arisen in the course of implementing general education and vocational education. Changes have affected primarily the external aspects of the teaching-upbringing process: the training-material base has been improved somewhat, administrators have imposed higher standards on educators, discipline has improved in the teaching engineer [engineer is the equivalent of specialists with a higher technical education—Tr. Ed.] collectives, and the link between training and productive labor has been strengthened. But the main concern—the quality of the teaching-upbringing process—has changed very little, and in some aspects things have even deteriorated. I refer here to the moral upbringing of the students, student self-government, and so on. The main cause of failures in the reform, as I see it, is that the technology of pedagogical activity is not changing. Masters and instructors are continuing to work in the old way. So far, unfortunately, our psychological-pedagogical science has sh...