Time Management as a Pedagogical Technology of PhD Students’ Effective Self-Management

Abstract

The article reveals the importance of the time management problem and substantiates the expediency of its research. It describes peculiarities of time management as a pedagogical technology concentrating on its principles; analysis of technology genesis was carried out in the works by foreign and domestic scientists from different fields of science. Five groups of problems solved with the help of this technology were identified. It was found out that time management within our research meets the requirements of a pedagogical technology effectively facilitating PhD students’ self-management. It was proved that it combines features of professional management technology as well as effective self-management. The research analyzed the influence of training sessions (36 hours) devoted to the development of time management skills (professional and personal) at the level of postgraduate students’ time management competence formation. There was ground to conclude that the conducted training sessions had a positive effect on the increase in all the indicators peculiar to the mentioned competence confirming the efficiency of time management technology in the process of PhD students’ self-management.