PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL CONDITIONS OF FORMATION PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE OF AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
In modern conditions of society professional self-identity of the future engineer of the agricultural sector depends on its professional competence. Education requires special attention to professional competence of professionals of the agricultural sector. The relevance of the problem of learning management in the agricultural universities as well as the feasibility of introduction of new mechanisms into learning management are based on theoretical analysis of psychological and pedagogical approaches. The article determines the feasibility of strengthening practical oriented directed learning activities and ways to implement new mechanisms of learning process. These new methods are expected to create conditions for further implementation of the competency approach into educational activities of the future engineer of the agricultural sector in the agricultural universities. The author determined the following psychological and pedagogical conditions: creation of educational space in agrarian university vocational-oriented environment based on the principles of humanistic, creative, reflective approaches; organization of appropriate selection of forms, techniques and training methods that have contributed to the subject-subject interaction and activation of all participants in the educational process; formation of students' intrinsic motivation of sustained professional development and the learning process should be gradual and aimed at self-education.