Shchotka O. Formation of psychological readiness of pedagogical Universities' students to professional and managing activity.

This thesis is dedicated to open the content of professional and managing self-definition of education manager before professional steps. The directions of study of professional formation of manager in general and education in particular are opened in this work. The work lights up the content of professional and managing self-definition, which is understanding as continual and discrete process, self-definition of specialist concerning the criteria of managing professionalism, worked-out in the society. It shows that dynamic of professional-managing self-definition consists of change for self-attitude and the criteria of this attitude. The result of self-definition on each step is acknowledged accepting of criteria for managing professionalism. The peculiarities of the structure and formation of psychological readiness of the students of pedagogical Universities to professional and managing self-definition are fixed. Also we proposed the system of psychological maintenance of formation during educational process and pedagogical practice.