HUMANITARIAN ORIENTATION IN THE EDUCATION OF STUDENTS OF TECHNICAL SPECIALTIES: EXISTENTIAL ASPECT
This article is aimed to revealing the role of humanitarian orientation in the education of university students of technical specialties. It has been shown that it is very important for students to realize the search of meaning of the life in the course of professional training, which is not connected with humanitarian contents. Formation of humanitarian orientation of the personality of university students can take place thanks to the humanitarian disciplines, as technical disciplines neither solve the problem of the sense of life nor bring up the existential questions: of life and death, loneliness, love and hatred, human relationship. On the example of the discipline “Foreign language” the technique of increasing the level of humanitarian orientation of the personality, which has been approved during the pedagogical experiment, has been developed. The increase of the level of humanitarian orientation of the personality of students is possible if humanitarian educational environment of the university (in general) and humanitarian environment of the lesson (in particular) is created, which will promote formation of existential values and sense of life as the highest integrative beginning of the personality.