THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROFESSIONAL PERSONAL POTENTIAL FROM THE PERSPECTIVES OF THE SYNERGETIC APPROACH
The article discusses the problem of the development of students’ professional personal potential as an important component of their professional competence. The professional personal potential is presented as a synergetic system that has such characteristics as the openness to the outer influence and the capability of transformation under the influence of the external environment, self-organization, self-development, non-linearity and non-equilibrium. The structure of the professional personal potential is described as an attractor, i.e. a fragile state that is ready to transform when some components dominate the others due to their quicker or slower development and formation. The component structure of the students’ professional personal potential is studied, it is presented as a system of abilities and inclinations to the chosen profession, potentials to their development, i.e. determined motivational forces and intentions to develop the abilities and inclinations, that keep working whatever the circumstances might be, the capability to adopt to the changing conditions of the professional environment, regarding the success in the professional self-determination. The theoretical conclusions about the structure of the professional personal potential and the criteria of its development are verified by the material of questionnaires of the first and second year students, who took part in scientific and practical conferences. The participation of students in scientific and practical conferences, is viewed as one of the ways to develop their professional personal potential that contributes to their professional growth. The analised criteria of the personal growth are the capability of self-development, reflection and self-reflection, creativity, communicability, the capability to organize determined work, workability.