MENTORING YOUNG SCIENTISTS: CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS AND INSTRUMENTAL-TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS
The article is interdisciplinary and presents a model of scientific mentoring, which is the result of the authors' reflection on their own experience of working with young scientists. The need to develop a special system of mentoring in science is due to both the specifics of scientific sphere and the characteristics of the modern young generation. The authors show that mentoring is widely used not only in the educational process but also in other spheres of society - business, politics, and the public sector. Scientific understanding and justification of mentoring occur mainly within the framework of psychological and pedagogical knowledge. This study states the absence of conceptual works devoted to mentoring in science. The conceptual basis of the model is an interdisciplinary complex of axiological, activity, subject, personality-oriented, network and project approaches. The subjects of interaction in the mentoring system include an authoritative scientist-mentor and young scientists, who are considered as scientific leaders in three dimensions - personal-professional, status-role and figurative-symbolic. The organizational and substantive basis of the scientific mentoring system is research activity. The communicative component of the scientific mentoring system is implemented through the inclusion of young scientists in scientific schools and the scientific and professional community, as well as in the public space. The instrumental and technological basis of the scientific mentoring system is a complex of social, psychological, pedagogical, marketing and management technologies: technology of academic supervising, technology of academic mentoring, technology of coaching, technology of project work, technology of network interaction, technology of distributed team management, technology of forming a professional community, and technology branding. The presented model of scientific mentoring allows you to implement an integrated approach in working with young scientists, aimed at their professional training and personal development in the current social context. The use of this model allows solving the problems of early career guidance of young people, building continuous and long-term interaction of a mentor with schoolchildren, students and graduate students for high-quality training of young specialists in science.