The school of thought of St. Petersburg methodological linguoconceptology: experience in problematising a continuing professional development course

Abstract

Continuing professional development is considered as a form of lifelong learning. The paper describes the experience of problematising the interdisciplinary professional development course "Linguoconceptology: methods and techniques for working with concepts". The main aim of the study is to evaluate the impact of the new scientific field on the student’s motivation for academic and scientific work in the professional development process, as well as on its effectiveness expressed in the desire to use the methods and techniques of methodological linguoconceptology in researchand practical activity. The main research methods were system and problem analysis when making the problem statement in conjunction with the content analysis and questionnaire methods. The study reveals the mechanism of interaction between three resources, namely scientific (an invitation to comprehend new ideas and concepts of modern science), methodological (which is particularised in authorial techniques and anthropopractices), and students’ motivated activity as a marker of their effective completion of the course syllabus. The motivational activity resource was involved in two assignment types, i. e. testing and solving practice-oriented problems. We performed content analysis of the course participants’ products. The paper presents the results of studying the trainees’ motivated activity. The most important principle for the professional development system is the immediate application of what has been learnt.