Abstract
The modern society has established high standards for the system of higher education responsible for the training of highly qualified, competitive specialists. The improvement of the educational process in a higher educational institution, the formation of students’ vocational competence is possible through the realization of students’ educational activity the important component of which is motivation. Such issues as levels of educational motivation, hierarchy and dynamics of educational motives in the course of mastering a profession peculiar to Russian working and nonworking full-time students seeking a bachelor’s degree in the sphere of psychology and pedagogics have been studied in the article. There have been revealed systemic motives in the structure of educational motivation of working and nonworking students at each year of studies. There have been defined problem areas of students’ educational activity, and there have been designated tendencies for further development of students’ educational motivation. The following techniques have been applied as psycho diagnostic tools: “Definition of students’ motivation for studies”, “Diagnostics of students’ educational motivation”. New opportunities for psychological and pedagogical approaches to solve the issues of students’ educational cognitive activity optimization, extra curricular activity within the frames of higher educational institution and outside have been revealed due to the of research of the structure and specificity of educational motivation of students seeking a bachelor’s degree with their secondary employment in view.
Highlights
1.1 Actualizing the ProblemThe issue of training highly qualified specialists in modern conditions in Russia, when the transition to a two-level system of the higher education takes place, has acquired the increasing value
To identify working and nonworking full-time students, to specify the features of their secondary employment, and to monitor their academic progress in a higher educational institution there was carried out a survey of studied students
There have been found out distinctions in the content of educational motivation and the hierarchy of motives of working and nonworking students studying in a higher educational institution in the field of psychology and pedagogics
Summary
1.1 Actualizing the ProblemThe issue of training highly qualified specialists in modern conditions in Russia, when the transition to a two-level system of the higher education takes place, has acquired the increasing value. The new educational paradigm of the higher education is focused on personality’s interests, formation of professional competence, development of social activity and creative initiatives (Nigmatov, 2015). The process of students’ professional formation is quite difficult and depends on various factors of social-psychological and pedagogical matters (Rakhmanova et al, 2014; Cheverikina et al, 2014). Among significant factors it is possible to distinguish the adequacy of students’ motivational sphere to the aims and tasks of the educational system in a higher educational institution. For many years of Soviet and the beginning of post-Soviet periods, the classical image of a full-time student focused only on educational process and professional and personal development had been created. Social and economic transformations happening in Russia in the last 20 years have introduced changes in the system of higher education. Commercialization of education and meager scholarships compelled young people to combine educational activity with labor one
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