FORMATION OF PROFESSIONAL SELF-DETERMINATION OF CONVICTED JUVENILES IN A REFORMATORY
The main mission of the neoclassical paradigm of education of the 21st century is to provide conditions for self-determination, self-realization and socialization of young people. The movement from the knowledge-oriented paradigm of education toward the practice-oriented concept gives the chance to use the gradual formation of professional self-determination of convicted teenagers in penal institutions and their self-realization and socialization after their release. It offers a way to increase the convicted teens’ academic motivation, master the profession through various aspects of the educational values, conditions of self-realization and socialization: vocational guidance, the juveniles’ inclusion in professional tests and in pre-vocational training taking into account age and psychological capabilities and requirements of their future professional activities. The modern approach to the organization of the juveniles’ labour education and vocational training in educational colonies for some reasons doesn’t take into account the juveniles’ needs, desires, interests and aptitudes as well as the needs of specific regions in the employees of different levels of education. Pre-professional training provides juveniles with knowledge of professions, the requirements of different professions to a person (vocational guidance process), forms the readiness for choosing and practical mastering a profession, related specialties in an educational colony or after release. Pre-professional training is accompanied by monitoring professional interests, aptitudes needs and desires, which allows identifying individual vocational guidance and professional potential of convicted juveniles and assessing their own professional intentions about their professional future and figuring out their path of further vocational training after release. A prerequisite for preparing convicted juveniles for professional self-determination is a comprehensive approach to the study of personal characteristics: value orientations, preferred areas of professional activity, motives for choosing a profession s, professional interests, professional inclinations and desires. The results of experimental research of the convicted juveniles’ value orientations, preferable areas of professional activity, motives for choosing a profession, professional interests, vocational inclinations, desires of the experimental educational colonies of Altai Krai, Kemerovo, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk and Tyumen regions are presented. The convicted teenagers showed a high level of inclination to the professions such types as «person - sign system», «person - person» and «person - artistic image». Important values when choosing a profession are good relationships with other convicted teens, educators, teachers, industrial training masters, as well as interesting work and good salary. Low self-esteem limits the choice of interesting professions and attractive fields of activity. Analysis of the content of the answers in the questionnaires revealed cognitive dissonance among the convicted juveniles while trying to choose a profession.