PROFESSIONALISM AS AN INТEGRAL CHARACTERISTIC OF THE PERSON

Abstract

Abstract. The author reviews professionalism as a process and result of secondary and professional education and personal development. The author offers his own definition for professionalism, which differs from those mentioned in modern scientific resources. This definition integrates occupational and personal aspects of professionalism, and shows the factors having positive or negative impact on the formation and consolidation of professional skills, emphasizing a special role of education and professional activities. The development of professionalism takes place not only at the moment when a person has already chosen profession and is studying at the institution, but it is a lifelong process. Being a subject of social relations, the person deals with people of different occupations. He “tries on” some of these professions and finally makes his own professional choice. He enters a corresponding educational institution in order to be trained for chosen professional activity. On graduating the educational institution, he gets involved into professional activity where his professionalism is developed most intensively. The author outlines that, professionalism is a subjective integrity, and its formation occurs during the whole life of the person. For a better understanding of its nature, the author appeals to the complex that includes the philosophy of holism, synergetics and the doctrine of the noosphere. The author sees the phenomenon of professionalism from these points of view that contributes to the novelty of the research.