THE PREPARATION OF PROFESSIONALS IN DOCUMENT SCIENCE WITHIN SPECIALTY 015 «PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION»: CHALLENGES OF TODAY

Abstract

The article analyzes the peculiarities of the training of specialists of the specialty 015.05 «Professional Education (Document Science)», describes the competences that future teachers of professional training in document science learn. The emphasis is placed on the importance of continuing vocational education, which corresponds to the world trends in life-long education. It has been proved that in the context of the new educational paradigm it became necessary to develop sectoral standards for higher education. An analysis of draft standards has shown that the humanistic and human-centric paradigm of vocational education is transformed into technological / technocratic. The question is the relation of pedagogical and documentary disciplines in the curriculum of preparation of bachelors and masters; the issue of the need to include in the curriculum of linguistic, bibliographic and archival studies disciplines is unresolved. It is emphasized that the basic principles of training specialists within the specialty «Vocational education» should remain its humanization, fundamentalization and activity orientation.