Sirant O. The Formation of Knowledge on the Fundamentals of Thermal Power Engineering of Automotive Transport Specialists in Vocational Colleges and Technical Schools: An Integrative Approach

The purpose of the study is to theoretically substantiate, develop, and experimentally verify the effectiveness of a model for forming knowledge about the basics of thermal power engineering in future automotive transport specialists. Research tasks: 1) To analyze the process of formation the knowledge about the basics of thermal power engineering in future automotive transport specialists as a pedagogical problem; 2) To theoretically substantiate methodological approaches, didactic principles, and organizational conditions for forming knowledge about the basics of thermal power engineering in future automotive transport specialists; 3) To build a model for the formation of knowledge about the basics of thermal power engineering in future automotive transport specialists based on an integrative approach and to reveal the components, criteria, indicators, and levels of formation of this knowledge in pupils and students; 4) Develop a methodology for forming knowledge about the basics of thermal power engineering in future automotive transport specialists based on the integrated module “Basics of Thermal Power Engineering”; 5) Experimentally verify the effectiveness of the model for forming knowledge about the basics of thermal power engineering and the methodology for its implementation in the training of future automotive transport specialists. The object of the study is the process of professional training of future automotive transport specialists. The subject of the study is an integrative approach to teaching the fundamentals of thermal power engineering to automotive transport specialists in vocational institutions. Methods: analysis and synthesis, specification, modeling, pedagogical observation, questionnaire, survey, pedagogical experiment, mathematical statistics. The scientific novelty of the obtained results lies in the fact that for the first time, a model for forming knowledge about the basics of thermal power engineering in future automotive transport specialists based on an integrative approach has been theoretically substantiated and experimentally verified; the didactic principles have been determined (continuity of the content of studying the basics of thermal power engineering at all levels of education as vertical integration of knowledge; the integration of the content of thermal power engineering with the fundamentals of natural sciences, mathematics, and the humanities as horizontal integration of disciplines; the creation of digital support for the formation of knowledge about the fundamentals of thermal power engineering as instrumental integration of knowledge) and the organizational conditions for the implementation of these principles (interdisciplinarity, contextuality, modularity, activity, and personalization) have been determined; methodological approaches to the formation of knowledge about the basics of thermal power engineering in future automotive transport specialists have been clarified (integrative, competence-based, activity-based, systemic, axiological, digital, and organizational); the structural components of knowledge about the basics of thermal power engineering in future automotive transport specialists (target, content, procedural, and result-oriented) have been specified, and the criteria, indicators, and levels of their formation have been defined; the methodology for forming knowledge about the basics of thermal power engineering in future automotive transport specialists has been improved through the integration of interdisciplinary knowledge; theoretical provisions regarding the professional training of future automotive transport specialists and methodological principles for the formation of knowledge about the basics of thermal power engineering in future automotive transport specialists have been further developed.