ORGANIZATIONAL AND PEDAGOGICAL CONDITIONS OF DEVELOPMENT OF DIGITAL CULTURE OF PEDAGOGICAL EMPLOYEES

Abstract

The relevance of the study is associated with the society’s need for increasing the rate of vocational (professional) education digitalization and with the lack of methodological and didactic support of this process.

The aim is to justify the structure and content of organizational and pedagogical conditions of developing digital culture among the teaching staff at vocational schools.

Methods: comparison of scientific facts and generalization of pedagogical experience with extrapolation of the analyzed scientific principles and empirical ideas to the theory and methodology of vocational education; analysis of documentation and results of the teaching staff’s activity at vocational schools; pedagogical observation and self-observation.

Results: the present-day status of vocational education and in particular the status of the teaching staff’s digital culture have been analyzed; emphasis has been placed on the intensification of the digitalization trend due to the world pandemic; the key reasons for the low level of digitalization (domination of conservative approaches to the organization of training, complex mechanisms of implementing apprenticeship and work-based learning modes) have been identified; optimal ways of solving the problem (using hybrid learning models, ensuring appropriate infrastructure and equal access to the Internet and digital educational resources, organization of digital skills training for the teaching staff) have been described.

Conclusions: a novel set of organizational and pedagogical conditions as a subsystem of developing digital culture among the teaching staff at vocational schools has been justified. It consists of three blocks: the personal and professional block that includes the teaching staff’s use of digital resources and their willingness to train themselves to improve the skills of using digital resources and services; the organizational and technical block which presupposes the creation of digital educational environment at vocational schools and organization of the educational process based on blended learning approaches; the content and procedural block that includes e-learning courses available in the Learning Management System (LMS) and the tailor-made course “Digital Technologies in Vocational Education”.