Practical Training of Students as a Component оf the Educational and Professional Space of the Institution оf Higher Education: Traditions and Innovations

Abstract

The purpose of the work is to outline the concept of "educational and professional space of a higher education institution" and characterize its content. The study focuses on the educational and professional programs "Documentology, management of state authorities and local self-government" and "Management of social and communication networks, Internet marketing" of the specialty "Information, library and archival affairs", which are implemented by the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts. The methodology of the work consists in the analysis and synthesis of the scientific works of the authors on the research of the outlined problem, a hypothetical-deductive method for outlining the content of the concept of "educational and professional space of a higher education institution" and identifying its main components. The scientific novelty of the study consists in characterizing the content of the concept of "educational and professional space of a higher education institution", identifying its system-forming components – content and organizational and communicative, and delineating its components both traditional (types of practice as a structural component of the educational process of training a specialist), and innovative - dual education for the training of specialists in the specialty "Information, library and archival affairs". Conclusions. Today, the educational space of a higher education institution is moving to a new qualitative level and should be defined as an educational and professional space in which subject-subject interaction of potential employers with students, representatives of higher education institutions takes place, not only from the point of view of established forms of practice as a structural component of educational process, and is carried out in the implementation of an innovative form of educational and professional training - dual education. Practice as a structural component of the educational process corresponds to the initial stage of professionalization and is a process of involving an individual in professional activity and improvement in one of the directions of this activity, is a means of adapting students to professional activity, contributes to the development of professional culture, innovativeness of professional activity, development of professional values, identification of behavior with the norms of professional ethics. The introduction of dual education for the innovative specializations "Documentology, management of state authorities and local self-government bodies" and "Management of social and communication networks, Internet marketing" with the specialty "Information, library and archival affairs" is due to the infrastructure of document-information and social-communication types activities and will ensure the integration of education, science and practical activities in the document and information field. 
 Keywords. Educational and professional space, institution of higher education, dual education, information, library and archival affairs.