Home – Home – Jornals – Professional Education in the Modern World 2019 number 4

In recent years, the problem of the development of the Arctic territories throughout the world has received very close attention, which is associated with their enormous potential that has not been sufficiently studied and developed so far. When studying the Arctic, a systematic approach should be used, considering a lot aspects of the effective functioning of the northern territories taken as a whole. When training personnel capable of working in the harsh northern conditions, it is necessary to take into account the specifics of work in the Arctic zone. It is necessary to develop new educational programs that are in demand by employers with a list of disciplines that form the professional competencies necessary for working in the extreme conditions of the Arctic. The purpose of the article is to show which specialists are required today to solve the priority tasks of the development of the Sakha Republic’s (Yakutia) northern and Arctic territories. While studying materials on the topic of the article, a combination of theories of the systemic and activity approaches to training personnel for work in the Arctic conditions was used. In addition to analyzing, comparing and summarizing the content of foreign and Russian scientific and informational sources relevant to the stated problem, organizational (comparative and complex), empirical (expert assessments, process analysis), qualitative data processing research methods were used to systematize the data. Theoretical analysis of the scientific, popular science, educational literature on the research topic was conducted; as well as analysis of educational and methodological documentation (curricula, basic professional educational programs, work programs of disciplines) and regulatory documents (federal state educational standard, professional standards, sample basic educational programs, instructional letters of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russia, etc.). The main features of the functioning of the Arctic territories of the Russian Federation are considered. The priority tasks needed for the development of sectoral branches of the economy and social sphere in the Arctic territories of Russia have been identified. A list of graduates’ professional competencies that must be formed to work effectively in the harsh Arctic conditions was defined. The developed list of new master's programs and individual modules of disciplines that take into account the specifics of work in the Arctic, can be offered to other institutions of higher education for joint training of specialists.