Vasyuk O. The theory and methodology of the professional orientation formation of future social pedagogues in higher agricultural education establishments.

The dissertation presents the theoretical synthesis and proposes the solution of the urgent scientific problem of the professional orientation formation of future social pedagogues in higher agricultural education establishments. The essence of conceptual and categorical apparatus of investigation, namely the meaning of the concept “professional and pedagogical orientation”, “professional orientation of a future social pedagogue” has been specified; the structure of the professional orientation as the relationship of four components (cognitive, motivational, activity and behavioral, personality and reflective) has been described; conceptual foundations of the pedagogical system of the professional orientation formation of future social pedagogues in agricultural higher education establishments have been created; the method of the professional orientation formation of future social pedagogues has been proposed; the effectiveness of this method has been experimentally checked in the process of the pedagogical experiment. The structure model of the professional orientation formation of future social pedagogues has been represented, the main structure blocks are: concept, content and procedure, diagnostic; model criteria have been concretized; model indexes and levels have been defined. The pedagogical factor and conditions of the professional orientation formation of future social pedagogues in agricultural higher education establishments havhave been validated; the scientific and methodical guidance for this process has been proposed and applied.