The Development of Professional Identity and Professional Mentality of Youth

Olena Kriukova,Maryna Reva

doi:10.7596/taksad.v9i4.2736

Abstract

This article represents a theoretical analysis, systematization and generalization of the views of various scholars on understanding the content, structure and development of professional identity and professional mentality of university youth in the process of vocational training. It is proved that the current social, political, economic situation has led to the blurring of the guidelines necessary for both personal and professional self-determination, and as a consequence, the problem of finding professional identity is extremely important for modern young people. Professional identity is considered as a dynamic creation that includes a well-established, consistent, real and ideal professional image of the self, providing self-realization, development, inner integrity, personality determination, adequacy and stability of its self-concept regardless of situation changes, identity with profession and professional community, mature solution of professional tasks. It is shown that the content-forming goal of professional education, the result of professionalization is the development of a special professional mentality of the future specialist, which determines the peculiarities of perception of professionally significant objects, professional social attitudes and values of the individual and becomes a special form of their life and deep existence.

Highlights

The professional development of a person, taking place in youth, is intensive in the process of vocational training in a secondary vocational or higher educational establishment
Theoretical understanding of research approaches to the problem of professional identity and professional mentality requires the implementation of general scientific methods of theoretical knowledge, including analysis, synthesis, disengagement, generalization, which allow deepening the understanding of the investigated concepts
Hoffman identified three types of identities: a social identity reflects the typification of the individual with others - "a social self"; a personal identity, a unique set of individual qualities of a particular person, which characterize them as an object in time and space "a physical self"; a self-identity, the individual's subjective perception of his life situation and his own peculiarity - "a reflexive self" (Hoffman, 2000)

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Introduction

The professional development of a person, taking place in youth, is intensive in the process of vocational training in a secondary vocational or higher educational establishment At this time, young people purposefully master the system of knowledge and gain practical skills in the chosen career, acquire special personal traits and values, necessary in their professional activities. The age of youth (the third decade of life) accounts for the fifth, the sixth, and the beginning of the seventh stage, which makes it difficult to generalize the characteristics of the process of professional selfdetermination at this age This classification is more or less satisfactory to describe the professional development of people if they, having chosen a profession in adolescence, remain in it until the end of their lives. This classification does not take into account the factor of professional mobility of young people

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