Creative personality reflection of future marine specialists in the phenomenon of professional image

Abstract

Some results of the analytical work as a generalization of the pedagogical discourse on the relationship, and interdependence of such phenomena as: creative personality, professional image are presented in the article. Emphasis is placed on pedagogically motivated understanding of the educational process of a modern institution, in particular, higher maritime education, university cognitive and developmental environment, student subculture as factors influencing the dynamics of forming a positive professional image of future specialist who masters the profession of «man-technician». Some parameters that can be assessed as significant for the professional image of future marine engineers at the stage of acquiring basic higher education are characterized. Higher education has a decisive influence on the formation of the applicant as a specialist, and the natural interest is precisely the specified stage of personal and professional creative growth. Despite the increased interest of modern researchers in the outlined problematic issues, the question of how the creative personality of a higher education student reflects on the phenomenology of professional image is still left out of their attention. It is recognized that personal image is layered on professional. Instead, the peculiarities of the profession determine certain image characteristics of the future specialist, increasing his business reputation as a participant in public relations. And this, as practice shows, has a positive effect on the career growth of the specialist. It was noted that in the process of professional training in the institution of higher education of maritime profile it is fundamentally important to focus pedagogical efforts on awareness of cadets (at the level of beliefs) of the importance of such parameters of professional image: 1) demonstrate established soft skills (in particular, the ability to work in a team); 2) effective manifestation of scientific and technical style of thinking in matters of marine engineering - the basis for the presentation of their own intellectual initiative; 3) the necessary and sufficient degree of readiness for intercultural communication, the ability to professional self-realization in a multicultural society, in particular, through the mastery of professional communication skills in a foreign language and the education of tolerance.