Home – Home – Jornals – Professional Education in the Modern World 2015 number 4

The article explores the problems of foundation and development of professional students’ guidance in higher education. The authors analyze the research results and professional students’ guidance and put forward a hypothesis about the conditions of foundation and development of professional self-determination of students in university-managed development of the individual. The paper investigates the concepts of individualization and personalization in educational space. The article considers organizational and pedagogical conditions that support professional students’ guidance at engineering universities in frames of individual and personal education in the aspect of employment. The publication puts forward application of system-activity approach in the foundation and development of professional students’ guidance. Particular attention is paid to creating a model of pedagogical support of professional students’ guidance through 3 related subjects included into curricular of Tomsk Polytechnic University. The results of sociological research of students’ personal and professional characteristics and opportunities for their development in the educational system of the university are investigated. The authors highlight the research results of TPU students on their future professional career and their views on blue-collar jobs, industrial training and research and academic training. The article underlines necessity for students’ career guidance in engineering professions.