MODERN STUDENTS’ REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THEIR FUTURE PROFES- SION

Abstract

Nowadays qualitative training of future specialists is very important. Successful students’ development as a professional depends on their psychological peculiarities, individual images and representations about their future professional activity.
The article defines and analyses the contents of representations, professional representations and their com- ponents. We did a research for studying the students’ representations about their future profession and their learning experiences. Etymologically the word representation means understanding something, knowledge based on previous experience.
The problem of the professional representations as important component of professional professional de- velopment of the pesonality is the subject of studying for many researchers. The professional representations are considered as regulators of the professional self-determination. The structure of representations about a profession consists of the subjective component which contains the students’ representations about the person of the professional activity and the subject component which contains the students’ representations about the contents of their future activity.
The inquiry of first year students has shown that they have more objective and realistic representations about their future profession. The right choice of specialty is an important condition for them to continue their studying. At the same time, obtaining competencies is prestigious for them. The interviewed students appreciate the organization of the studying rather positively. They pay attention to the fact that the success of occupation depends on their own efforts and motivation. The professional representations of young people may change and have negative tendencies, such as the doubts of 2–3-year students in the correct choice of profession, disappointment, etc. Therefore, it is important to form a professional orientation, personal self-determination, development of professional qualities.