Pedagogical Correction of University Student Professional SelfAlienation

Abstract

The study topicality is determined by the trends in the social group increase of those
university graduates who do not work in the specialty - its “hidden unemployed.
Sociological, psychological and teacher studies have shown that the individual’s
unrealized intellectual resource, corresponding to the education obtained in higher
education, becomes the dominant factor in the values transformation of its vocational
training into corporate behavior norms. It is established that in these norms’ realization
specialists more closely correlate themselves with a specific organization that provides
an opportunity to earn money than with their training specialty received at the
university. Accordingly, determined by socio-economic and educational risks variety,
the individual’s self-alienation process from the profession constantly replenishes the
graduates’ social group who do not work in their specialty. In this regard, the main
attention in this paper is devoted to the theoretical and methodological justification of
pedagogical correction’s mechanisms of students’ professional self-alienation in the
university educational process. The paper describes the modern interpretation of the
concept “professional self-alienation”; on the study results basis, the pedagogical
correction mechanisms of university students professional self-alienation (educational
activity basic knowledge and practical skills, professional ideals as a condition for
identifying one’s self), corporate culture norms are determined. As a universal
mechanism of professional self-alienation pedagogical correction, the structure and
content of the elective interdisciplinary course “The individual’s professional selfalienation” are substantiated.