THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF TEACHING MASTER’S STUDENTS IN PEDAGOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY OF HIGHER EDUCATION

The article addresses the problem of updating the content of the teaching system of the academic discipline “Pedagogy and Psychology of Higher Education” for students of the second master’s level of higher education in the field of knowledge 01 Education/Pedagogy, in the specialty 011 “Educational, Pedagogical Sciences”. The article focuses on the problem of competence-based training of master’s students for professional pedagogical self-realization in the context of modern realities of educational transformation. The features of teaching the theoretical and methodological components of the discipline have been outlined and practically reasoned as fundamental factors of the future effective professional realization of master’s students in the field of pedagogical professional activity in the speciality and teaching in pre-higher and higher education institutions. The purpose of the research is to determine the ways to improve the methods of teaching the professional discipline “Pedagogy and Psychology of Higher Education”, to update its content at the master’s level of education, to outline the theoretical and methodological aspects of specialized training of master’s students in the context of achievements of pedagogical science. Based on the analysis of the educational and methodological complex of the discipline “Pedagogy and Psychology of Higher Education”, which is a component of the educational and professional program “Extracurricular Education” of the second master’s level of higher education, and professional publications on the topic of scientific research, a set of principles of effective organization of the educational process in the credit-module system of training has been formed. The features of self-education of applicants as a priority educational component in the format of implementing the Bologna Process have been clarified. The influence of factors, circumstances, components of the educational and developmental environment on the formation of learning outcomes and students’ mastery of integral competence, which combines the components of the system of professional psychological-pedagogical knowledge, skills and abilities of organizing and implementing the educational process in higher education institutions, has been characterized. The factors of environmental influence on the process of perception and assimilation of the academic discipline program have been specified. The importance of implementing such a comprehensive scientific-pedagogical, psychological and methodological readiness of future master’s students of educational pedagogical sciences for conscious substantive analysis and study of technologies and innovations, modern approaches, ability to forecast future vectors and modern trends in the development of higher education in Ukraine and its effective integration into the European educational space has been noted.