Factors influencing forming foresters' professionalism
Authors: Khryk Vasyl 
Published: October 2022

The article reveals the factors of formation of readiness of future forestry specialists for professional activity. The purpose of the study is to reveal the factors influencing the formation of the readiness of future forestry professionals for professional activities, in particular its criteria: motivational-personal, information-cognitive, effective-practical. Materials and methods: theoretical – analysis of psychological and pedagogical, scientific and methodological literature to reveal the factors influencing the formation of readiness of future forestry professionals for professional activities, justification of their importance for the formation of readiness criteria: motivational-personal, information-cognitive, effective-practical. External, internal and accidental factors contributing to the formation of readiness of future forestry specialists for professional activity are singled out. The group of external determinants includes: the dynamics of market development; the nature of the projected social order for higher professional education; change of educational paradigms; increasing the complexity of professional activity; development of management as a strategic management culture and professional field of activity, etc. The internal determinants that contribute to the formation of the readiness of future forestry professionals for professional activities include: subject-subject relations in the system "teacher-applicant"; value perception and development of applicants' orientation on their training; the presence of the need for professional activity in the course of training and the motives for its implementation; the desire of applicants to show their own internal (volitional) activity in the process of professional activity; level of readiness for professional activity; intention for creative professional activity in the context of formation of readiness for professional activity. Manifestation and use of random factors contribute to the formation of the readiness of future forestry professionals for professional activities, which depends on the teacher's ability to see a favorable case, a unique situation. The influence of internal factors on the formation of criteria for the readiness of future forestry professionals for professional activities: motivational-personal, information-cognitive, effective-practical. Effective diagnosis of professional and personal development of future forestry specialists allowed to obtain objective information about the state of formation of motivational and personal criteria, outline the main directions of work, determine methods and technologies for forming professional values of future professionals. Such diagnostics allowed to trace in dynamics the real efficiency of influence of various subjects of professional training on personal development of future experts, change of their attitude to realities of social and professional life. Carrying out diagnostic sections in the framework of research and experimental work allowed to obtain the necessary objective information about the state of information and cognitive criteria of readiness for professional activity, outline the main directions and content of this work, determine methods and technologies to provide emotional background for future forestry professionals. This diagnosis allowed us to trace the gradual dynamics of the evolution of information and cognitive criteria for the readiness of future professionals to work, to assess the real effectiveness of the influence of various factors on its development. Effective diagnosis of professional and personal development of future forestry specialists as a factor in the formation of their readiness for professional activity allowed to obtain the necessary information on the status of effective and practical criteria of professional readiness, outline main directions of work, identify methods and technologies activities. We see the prospect of further research in the studied influences of selected factors on the formation of the readiness of future forestry professionals to work.