Kucher A. The forming of professional communication skills of agricultural economics students

The research object is the training of agricultural economics students. The purpose of the dissertation is to ground theoretical and experimentally verify a conceptual model of the forming of professional communication skills of agricultural economics students. In the process of investigation the following methods were used: analysis, synthesis, comparison, classification, monographic, abstract logic, modeling, surveys (questionnaires, interview), observation, expert evaluation, self-esteem, pedagogical experiment, methods of mathematical statistics, graph-analytical methods. The scientific novelty of research consists in construction, theoretical ground and experimental verification of the conceptual model of forming the professional communication skills of agricultural economics students, which is based on reflexive-active, dialogical, situationally-role and communicative approaches. The basic provisions of the thesis were brought to the level of specific teaching and methodical materials and practical recommendations for the formation of professional communication skills of future agrarian economists. The sphere of introduction is the agrarian and economics educational establishments.