TYPOLOGICAL FEATURES OF ACMEOLOGICAL ORIENTATION OF PEDAGOGUES-PSYCHOLOGISTS AT DIFFERENT STAGES OF THEIR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

In the situation of current social development the issue of personal and professional development of educational agents becomes particularly important. The other vital task is to find reliable and informative indicators of professional development regarding the stages of studying and definition of criteria which can serve as the basis for evaluation of success in educational innovations of professional education and a means to validate appropriate vectors of the evolution of higher education pedagogics.

The article presents theoretical and empirical search of indicators of professional development of a pedagogue-psychologist at the university and postgraduate stages of education. In this paper the concept of acmeological orientation of an individual is defined as the most important indicator for the development of professional orientation of pedagogues-psychologists and, at the same time, the marker of their professional and personal maturity. The author also analyzes the structure and functions of acmeological orientation of an individual. The research studies the hypothesis that the personal and professional development of a pedagogue-psychologist can be evaluated at the undergraduate and postgraduate stages of education through the description of the qualitative characteristics of acmeological orientation of an individual. The conducted empiric testing has revealed qualitative types of acmeological orientation of a pedagogue-psychologist. To define qualitative features of acmeological orientation of an individual at the undergraduate and postgraduate stages of education and to describe the specifics of professional formation of a pedagogue-psychologist the authors have carried out cluster analysis using the method of a single connection. At the higher-school stage of professional formation of pedagogues-psychologists the group of students represent such types as "oriented towards self-actualization" and "focused on themselves"; at the postgraduate stage the audience of a refresher course represents such types of acmeological orientation of an individual as "prosocial", "altruists" and "individualists". Through describing typological features of acmeological orientation of pedagogues-psychologists at the university and postgraduate stages of education it is possible to evaluate the effectiveness and predict directions of further development of individual pedagogues-psychologists in the process of undergraduate and postgraduate training.