Authenticity in vocational education

Abstract

An attempt was made to apply an authentic approach to teaching, which consists in creating conditions for the accumulation of students’ own experience in vocational education. The concept of “authenticity” establishes a connection between training and real production conditions and determines the quality of the personnel potential of enterprises.The work is based on theoretical studies of authentic education, the practice of training specialists in professional educational organizations. The solution of the set tasks was facilitated by the study of state regulatory documents, orders of the leaders of the railway industry on interaction with public organizations using methods of comparative analysis, comparing the data obtained, pedagogical observation, working out the practice of network interaction.An interpretation of the concepts “quality of personnel resources”, “quality of education” is proposed, the term “professional authenticity” is specified. The conditions for the formation of an authentic specialist are identified, indicators of the formation of professional authenticity are determined, the content of the interaction of a professional educational organizations and production is concretized to achieve an authentic goal. Rethinking the concept of “authenticity” made it possible to identify and describe the complex of organizational and pedagogical conditions for the formation of the professional authenticity of a future specialist.An authentic approach to education has gained relevance in the international educational community due to the applied nature and proposed new methods and technologies for training specialists, which causes the need for its further research.