Modular Technology of Corporate Formation of Blue-Collar Workers’ Professional Competency

Abstract

Topicality of the problem under investigation is conditioned by implementation of
competency oriented federal state educational standards and professional standards
into the practice of blue-collar workers training, the mentioned standards being
intended to disclose the host of functions of various blue-collar occupations and
WorldSkills standards reflecting modern world trends in the field of formation and
development of blue-collar workers’ professional competences. In the meaningful
aspect, today’s standards identifying requirements to blue-collar workers training will
define principles of selection and formation of competency oriented subject matter of
training; however, the choice of training technologies quite often remains beyond the
training standards. At the same time, the competency oriented training of blue-collar
workers shall envisage application of the activity approach to organization and
realization of the training and, consequently, of technologies of training based on the
activity approach. The modular technology of training based on points of European
concept of “Modular employable skills” can be one of such technologies. The purpose
of the article is description of the authors’ modular technology of forming of workers’
professional competency under conditions of corporate training. The modular
technology is described herein as exemplified by formation of professional
competency of workers of the machine-building industry in field of lathe part
machining. The article also includes results of an experimental approbation of a
developed modular technology in conditions of plants’ training centers. The
investigation’s leading method shall be a pedagogical educational experiment in
process whereof the modular technology of forming of workers’ professional
competency which has been developed by the authors shall be approbated, the
mentioned workers belonging to the machine-building industry in field of lathe part
machining, whereas a worker’s professional competency is regarded as an integrated
aggregate of core competencies and occupational personal properties which lie in the
base of the selection and structuring of the subject matter of training. Materials and
methods: the pedagogical educational experiment allows exposing the efficiency of
complex formation of the professional competency in trainees by means of applying
of the modular technique of training and methodological support, that is, educational
elements developed in line with requirements of Modular employable skills concept
and supplemented with a set of production tasks performed directly on the job under
the tutor’s guidance. The following methods were used in process of the research:
theoretical (analysis, synthesis, deduction and induction); diagnostic (methods of
analysis and systemizing of scientific pedagogical literature; generalization and
classification); empirical (modelling). The key results described in the article: the
professional competency model of the machine-building industry workers; the
modular technology of forming of professional competency of the machine-building
industry workers; the methodological support elaborated in line with requirements of Modular employable skills concept, plus results of the experimental approbation of the
developed modular technology. The modular approach, possessing systemic
properties, allows integrating the substantive basis of training formed in the
competency-based format, processes of selection and structuring of the content of
blue-collar workers’ training reflected in the program documentation fixed forms,
educational-methodological documentation represented by training elements,
organization- methodological aspects of training, organization and realization of
training which are also recorded in documentary form in line with requirements of
Modular employable skills concept.