Paradoxes of The Technogenic Society. On Nikolai Tverdynin’s Book Technics In the Literature of Different Countries and Periods: an Essay Monograph

The review on the book of a former Emergency Ministry official and a philosophy professor Nikolai Mikhailovich Tverdynin published in 2020 in ANO Dialog Kul’tur publishing house analyses views on technology and technics that are manifested by acknowledged people across the globe. Two major beliefs are as follows: technophobic and technocratic. Dr. Tverdynin provides an unbiased description of their application to practice, as it becomes clear that technological threat awareness is a key feature of both attitudes. The book suggests that modern technical boom and its increasing involvement in education and personal development shall remain a vital, but not central method of acquiring new skills, as direct experience teaches not only to operate, but also to be a qualified worker and an individual even in sciences. Despite this and other opinion messages (remember the author’s past service), the book is not a journalist, but a scientific work, as it is void of ideology that accompanies technology. Overall, the book serves as an example of a rare accurate review of such an urgent issue and on such a thorough source collection.

The essence and structure of creative abilities demonstrated by the future qualified workers in the sphere of services

The main task of professional education today is not to master a set of knowledge, but to develop the creative thinking of future qualified workers, their skills and abilities in performing independent search, analysis and evaluation of information. Self-actualization, self-affirmation and realization of creative abilities are also of great importance. Developing creative abilities is a way to motivate students in their learning. We live in the age of the scientific and technological revolution, and our life in all its manifestations becomes more diverse and more difficult at the same time, it does not require outdated or usual actions, on the contrary, it demands the mobility of thinking, rapid orientation, and a creative approach for solving big and small tasks. Nowadays, taking into account the dynamic development of industry and services, the competitiveness of future qualified workers in the service sector depends not only on their acquisition of a high level of knowledge of the technological process and manufacturing tasks, but also on their ability to solve communication and compositional problems. The purpose of the article is to determine the essence and structure of creative abilities of the future qualified workers representing the service sector. On the basis of the theoretical analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature, we offer our own interpretation of the creative abilities demonstrated by the future qualified workers of the services sector; creative abilities are associated with person’s integrated, dynamic qualities and properties which manifest themselves in developing essentially new ideas, in creating something qualitatively new in the services sector. Disclosing the structure of the creative abilities demonstrated by the future qualified workers of the services sector, we defined the following basic concepts for our research like: “services sector”, “a qualified worker”, “interactive technologies”. Having processed the regulatory-legal documents of professional (vocational) education, we have identified the component structure of the creative abilities demonstrated by the future qualified workers of the services sphere by means of interactive technologies: the stimulating-motivating, intellectual-heuristic, personality-targeted and constructive components. Different scientists’ approaches to the defining of the concept “abilities” and “creative abilities”, as well as the essence and structure of the creative abilities demonstrated by the future qualified workers in the services sphere by means of interactive technologies are considered in this article. Keywords: abilities, creative abilities, creativity, sphere of services, a qualified worker.

THE PROFESSIONAL MOBILITY SIGNIFICANCE IN PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING OF PEDAGOGIES PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

The driving force behind the development of Ukraine's improvement is the realization of the concept of "professionally mobile specialist". L. SUSHENTSEVA notes the importance of the psychological and pedagogical training of future specialists for the institutions of professional-technical (professional) education, Namely, "the urgency of the problem of the psychological and pedagogical readiness of the teachers of the vocational school is determined by the dynamic changes in the social order of the labor market, it constantly changes, the training of a qualified worker, the growing importance of the qualities of professional mobility, as a condition for the self-realization of the personality and its successful future professional life" [3, p. 356]. The author carried out a structural analysis of the psychological and pedagogical readiness of the vocational education teacher to form professional mobility among students in a vocational and technical educational institution and formulated three fundamental components: didactic competence, personal competence, psychological and pedagogical competence [3, p. 363-366]. To implement these components, we developed the content of the academic discipline "Professional Mobility" in the structure of psychological and pedagogical preparation of future bachelors of specialty 015 Vocational education (by specialties) at the National Pedagogical Dragomanov University. This discipline of 3 ECTS credits, 90 hours is studied in interdisciplinary relations with the disciplines: "Psychology", "Professional Pedagogy", "Methodology of vocational education ", "Pedagogical image", "Communicative processes in pedagogical activity" and others. The general objective of the discipline "Professional mobility" is the formation of the readiness of the future teacher of vocational education to change the professional tasks, the place of work, the ability to quickly solve pedagogical situations, to master new pedagogical technologies of instruction and the like.

LOCUS OF CONTROL, nAch AND VALUES OF COMMUNITY ENTREPRENEURS

Over the last two decades social scientists have paid greater attention to the phenomenon of the creation of companies and, especially, to the personality of entrepreneurs. This article examines the prevalence of a range of psychological attributes in a sample of entrepreneurs from Andalusian cooperatives. These attributes are locus of control, assessed by a version of the I-E Rotter Scale (1966); need of achievement, using Lynn's Achievement Motivation Questionnaire – LAMQ – (Lynn, 1969) and Values, assessed by the Rokeach (1973) Value Survey. We have analyzed the similarities and differences of this kind of entrepreneurship compared with other entrepreneurs who do not operate within the community economy. Our results show the double profile of the cooperative entrepreneur, halfway between the manager and the qualified worker.