JUNIOR ACADEMY OF LINGUISTICS AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS AS A RESOURCE OF PEDAGOGICAL SUPPORT OF PROFESSIONAL SELF-IDENTIFICATION OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Abstract
Educational-and-professional self-identification of high school students is important in
the social situation of their development. This process results in the conscious choice of the
educational-and-professional direction and one's professional education in the future. Despite
the availability of a considerable experience within practices in the activity of educational organizations,
the occupational guidance work is not always effective. Therefore, new organizational
approaches based on the idea of continuous pedagogical support of personality professional selfdetermination are needed. Pedagogical support for high school students is aimed to provide assistance
in choosing a field of future professional activity, as well as developing competences
required for their successful self-identification. The article describes the technology of pedagogical
support for high school students’ professional self-identification implemented in Junior
Academy of the SUSU Institute of Linguistics and International Communications (ILIC).
Literature review and the analysis of pedagogical experience were used to define the methods
and forms of pedagogical support. A questionnaire and statistical data analysis methods
were used to define the effectives of Junior Academy activity. It was concluded that pedagogical
support of professional self-identification of students implies the creation of an occupational
guidance space as a system of opportunities for students' independent and free choosing their professional
activity for the purpose of self-development and self-fulfillment. Actualization of a person's
professional self-identification is invoked by educational events. The stages, methods and
forms of pedagogical support of professional self-determination of students are determined.
The survey data and statistics made it possible to outline the ways to improve the work of Junior
Academy.
