METHODOLOGICAL BASES OF THE RESEARCH OF THE PROBLEM OF PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE FORMATION OF FUTURE ENGINEERS OF MECHANIZATION OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION

Abstract

The purpose of article is to define the methodological bases of the research of the problem of formation of professional competence of future engineering agrarians and to characterize the requirements of the leading methodological approaches to studying of the mentioned phenomenon. There has been shown the methodological essence as sciences about the conceptual directions of knowledge. Three levels of the use of methodological knowledge in the research of pedagogical problems have been analyzed: philosophical concepts of scientific knowledge (highest level), general scientific methodology, concrete and scientific level as set of the ideas or specific methods of a certain science. With the purpose of the development of theoretical and methodological bases of the formation of professional competence of future engineers of mechanization of agricultural industry there have been determined adequate means of the methodological analysis. The leading scientific approaches and requirements which should be considered at the stages of definition of the conceptual and categorial devices, receiving empirical material, its theoretical processing and interpretation have been specified. Methodological bases of the research of a problem are determined as unity of scientific approaches. Considering the requirements and provisions of the main scientific approaches (systematic, competence-based, activity, personally focused, ecological, informational, integrative and, technological) and, to a lesser extent, some other approaches (synergetic, axiological, culturological) will allow to strategically design the process of purposeful formation of professional competence of future engineers-agrarians, in particular to prove its purposes and tasks, the pedagogical principles, factors and conditions as theoretical basis. It will also allow to define a necessary didactic resource (pedagogical technologies, and techniques), to choose effective ways of control and correction of results at all investigation phases.