Influence of transprofessionalism on development of additional education in Russia

Introduction. The main idea of this article is that higher education is not capable of teaching transprofession- alism. Interdisciplinarity, on which transprofessionalism is based, is the result of a certain development of a professional’s personality, which reaches the level of supra-professional competences, relying on internally realized needs, own intellectual capabilities and on the institutional basis of additional education. Thus, ad- ditional education is a tool for the development of transprofessionalism and it finds a new social niche for its own development at the same time. The aim of the article: to determine the potential of supplementary edu- cation in the training of specialists in the conditions of transprofessionalization of the Russian labor market. Methods. This article uses general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis, comparison and generalization. Results and its discussion. The development of additional education is significantly influenced by the pro- cesses of transprofessionalization in the Russian labor market. Transprofessionalism emerged as a form of adaptation, on the one hand, to the deepening division of labor, on the other hand, to the emergence of new professions that do not require mandatory fundamental training. In part, it is a special way of professional communication in adjacent professional fields, but to large extent, transprofessionalism is a consequence of adaptation to market demands for mastering several adjacent professions. It ensures readiness to be pro- fessional with a wide range of competences. Higher education cannot promote cross-curricular education. It emphasizes fundamental learning. Any attempts to dilute narrowly specialized education with several profiles will inevitably fail, as they will eventually lead to the collapse of higher education itself. The current situation objectively contributes to the growth of the social status of additional education. Transprofessionalization acts as a kind of trigger for its formation. Implemented in two forms – advanced training and professional retrain- ing, additional education satisfies two transprofessional needs of the labor market: access to interdiscipli- nary links through a high level of professionalism and acquiring the ability to work in interdisciplinary fields through mastering related professions.