DEVELOPMENT OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ REFLEXIVE CULTURE: REVIEW OF RESEARCH APPROACHES

The relevance of studying the problem of the development of students' reflexive culture is due to the increasing need for a specialist with analytical abilities, who is able to identify the causes of difficulties and carry out the correction of ways of activity. The article presents an analytical review of scientific research, covering the problems of the reflexive culture of future specialists. The review of scientific sources is based on the following research questions: disclosure and clarification of the essence of the concept of “student's reflexive culture”; definition of a set of pedagogical conditions of development of university students' reflexive culture; analysis of the structure of university students' reflexive culture and criteria of development of its components. The conclusions in the article are based on the theoretical analysis of the scientific material and its generalization. The author defines students' professional reflective culture as an integral quality represented by the unity of theoretical and practical readiness of a person to design and regulate one's own professional activity, to professional self-development, and including a complex of special knowledge, skills, and values. Generalizing the approaches to the structure of a student's reflexive culture and taking into account the criteria of development of its components, the authors characterize a student with an advanced level of formation of reflexive culture. According to the results of the analytical and experimental study, several recommendations for the development of students' reflexive culture in higher education institutions have been formulated.