THE ROLE OF HUMANITIES IN TEACHING ANIMAL HUSBANDRY

Abstract

In the development modern society with need mentions such part of the nature as fauna. Animals became an element of society even during its genesis, however the world outlook attitude towards them always was uncertain including during the modern period of social development. Therefore both the student and the worker of livestock specialties is forced to develop independently the attitude towards animals as generally, and in connected with the specialty plans. The most important condition of this difficult process is presence at the expert not only special knowledge, but all-humanitarian base. The purpose of this article is consideration of the sociocultural aspects making an inseparable part of teaching livestock specialties in system of the higher education. A problem of weak sociocultural skills at the developed experts of livestock professions. Need for a discourse and more careful formation of skills of work with humanitarian categories and in connection with a certain type of a profession is investigated. The author develops the thesis according to which within humanitarian disciplines surely professional specifics and an orientation of the higher education have to be considered. Acquaintance of the student to all-humanitarian problems has to have not only abstract character, but also consider specifics of future profession. It demands that in any, even most specifically specialized profession, there has to be a place to a humanitarian perspective. Taking into account this factor in article the motivation of students at the choice of the livestock directions of professional education is briefly considered. At the same time the author focuses attention on didactics of a question and claims that it is impossible to replace traditional all-humanitarian disciplines with specialized humanitarian disciplines as the last can form the corresponding skills only on all-humanitarian base.