THE ESSENCE AND STRUCTURE OF SELF-EDUCATIONAL COMPETENCE OF HIGHER EDUCATION APPLICANTS

Abstract

The article characterizes the essence and defines the structural and component composition of self-educational competence of higher education students. The necessity of forming self-educational competence in students of higher education institutions is substantiated. The categorical and definitional analysis of the phenomenon of «self-educational competence of higher education students» is carried out, the concepts of «self-education», «competence», «self-educational competence» are analyzed and interpreted. The understanding of the definition of «self-educational competence of higher education students» is presented, its component composition is established. Sharing the views of I. Mosi, the selfeducational competence of higher education applicants is defined as an integrated quality of personality, a set of cognitive motives and intentions, effective self-educational knowledge and skills, experience of self-educational work, values that form the readiness and ability of a person to effective self-educational activity. In the structure of the studied construct, the following components are distinguished: motivational and value, organizational and procedural, and reflective. The relevant criteria (personal, activity and reflexive) and indicators of the formation of self-educational competence of higher education students are determined. To ensure the reliability of the provisions and conclusions, to achieve the goal, theoretical research methods were used, such as study, analysis, synthesis, comparison, generalization of information from publications in the electronic database Google Scholar and others, the regulatory framework of higher education in Ukraine. The scientific novelty and theoretical significance of the study lies in the fact that in the course of the research the structure and content of self-educational competence of higher education students were clarified and specified, the criteria and indicators of its formation were determined.