Abstract
The article deals with the problem of forming the professional competence of future specialists in economic specialties who receive education in professional economic colleges. The relevance of the current study lies in the fact that the dynamics of the traditional methodological approach in the educational process, given the global world trends, determines the priority of focusing on the competence approach and requires a detailed development of the content of the concept of competence of future specialists in economic specialties. The aim of the article is to determine the structure of future economists’ professional competence and the peculiarities of its formation in the educational space of professional economic colleges. The study used general research methods, such as generalization, comparison, systematization and abstraction, analysis, synthesis, and specification. Results. The structure of professional competence of future specialists in economic specialties, which combines professional and personal components, is substantiated. The vectors of improving the educational process aimed at forming information and digital, communication and intercultural competence in future specialists in economic specialties as an important component of their overall professionalism are allocated. The article establishes that the need to actualize the phenomenon of professional competence is due to the specific requirements for the professional qualities of an economist, characterized by the specific content and specific focus of professional activity. Conclusions. In the course of the study, it has been found that one of the promising areas of the educational process is the formation of future specialist’s personal qualities, including his/her digital literacy, logical thinking and international communication skills. It has been found that further research need determining and substantiating the psychological and pedagogical conditions for implementing the model of forming the economic specialties students’ professional competence in vocational education of higher education institutions. In addition, the basic principles of implementation and development of the educational process interdisciplinary integration are characterized. The development of an algorithm for the formation of foreign language professional communicative competence in future specialists of the field is seen as a promising direction of future research on the outlined topic
Keywords
professional training, students, professional competence, digitalization, educational process, integration processes
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