Theoretical-Methodological Foundations of Fostering in College Students Values-Based Attitude toward Their Future Professional Activity

The young generation is a strategic resource in any nation, with significant workforce and intellectual capital concentrated in student youth communities. College graduates are directly involved in modernizing the economic and social sectors and engaged in implementing reforms initiated by the government and civil society institutions. Constantly changing conditions of life are forcing young people to adapt to new realities, search for new forms of identity, cultivate a personal life stance, and build their spiritual world. With this in mind, the authors undertake to explore via this paper some of the topical issues associated with the theoretical/methodological foundations of the professional worth of future specialists who will work within the nation’s economic sector. The paper provides an insight into the essence of core professional values and examines some of the theoretical foundations of fostering them in future specialists. The authors show that one of the most significant professional qualities and characteristics of RESUMEN: La generación joven es un recurso estratégico en cualquier nación, con fuerza de trabajo significativa y capital intelectual concentrado en comunidades de jóvenes estudiantes. Los graduados universitarios participan directamente en la modernización de los sectores económico y social y participan en la implementación de las reformas iniciadas por el gobierno y las instituciones de la sociedad civil. Las condiciones de vida constantemente cambiantes están obligando a los jóvenes a adaptarse a las nuevas realidades, a buscar nuevas formas de identidad, a cultivar una postura de vida personal y a construir su mundo espiritual. Con esto en mente, los autores se comprometen a explorar a través de este documento algunos de los temas actuales relacionados con los fundamentos teóricos / metodológicos del valor profesional de los futuros especialistas que trabajarán dentro del sector económico de la nación. El documento proporciona una idea de la esencia de los valores profesionales básicos y examina algunos de los fundamentos teóricos de fomentarlos en futuros future specialists is the values-based attitude toward one’s future profession, which, structurally speaking, may be seen as an integral unity of three major components – cognitive, emotional, and behavioral. The study subject is student youth (residing predominantly in the capital region) aged 17 to 29. Findings. The authors propose a model for the stageby-stage cultivation in college students of the valuesbased attitude toward their future professional activity, which is predicated on the unity of three major stages: orientational, praxeological, and communicative/creative. The work’s theoretical and practical significance lies in that its key tenets may help expand one’s notions of the special nature of the student community as a social group, students’ life values and orientations, and the dynamics of the formation of student youth’s spiritual world. The study’s key tenets and conclusions may help expand and deepen one’s understanding of the process of the formation of students’ spiritual culture and expose the significant contradictions inherent in social influence on youth consciousness and behavior.