Abstract:

The quality problem of teachers’ professional work is connected with the students, trainee teachers’, self-education options and motivation research during the study process. Students’ purposeful self-education and development of self-reflection skills is one of the most significant pedagogic approaches in teachers’ education that can guarantee the education transformation process of the 21st century in school practice which will be focused on creativity and innovations. In order to make it possible for the education system to provide a purposeful and productive acquisition of pupils’ self-education skills, the issue about the teacher trainees’ motivation and self-education skills during the study process has to be promoted, therefore improving formation of students’ pedagogic competences during the study process at university. Research question is to encourage a scientific discussion about the significance of university students’ independent studies, describing the individualized learning development possibilities in the pedagogic self-education competence formation process during the study time. The subject of the research: self-assessment of students’ self-education competence in the study process at a higher educational establishment. Objective of the paper: to describe the competence of students' self-education in professional socialization within the study process. Research methods: analysis of theoretical findings, questionnaires and interviews, student self-assessment and self-reflection analysis. The study of pedagogical competence is based on the self-analysis of the student's practical performance in order to determine the motivation for professional growth. In the publication the significance of university students’ independent studies has been described, characterizing the individualized learning development possibilities in the process of pedagogic self-education competence formation during the study time. The results of the research confirm that the dominant of productive studies is “learning” process, which contains the student's purposeful and according to his/her professional development needs carried out independent work. The characterizing criterion of effective, on student’s professional growth oriented study process is the determined need and the ability of the future specialist to study independently, as the personal effort and activities of the independent work contribute to acquirement of lasting and qualitative knowledge, the motivation to continue or to enhance the obtained education, the development of purposeful pedagogical skills and competences.

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