SPECIFICITIES OF BACHELOR’S STUDENTS FORMING RESEARCH COMPETENCE IN SPECIALTY 012 PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATION

Abstract

At the modern stage of reforming higher professional education, a current problem is the search for new content, forms and methods of future teachers forming research competence as the ability to obtain new knowledge, professionallymaster the scientific knowledge methods, constructively solve pedagogical problems, research and analyze professionalphenomena and processes, evaluate the results of activities and determine ways to optimize them.The article purpose is to determine the specifics of the research competence formation in future preschool educators.To achieve the goal, the following tasks were solved: the essence of the future educator research competence concept was clarified; the features of the higher education applicants’ research competence formation in the specialty 012 Pre-school Education were analyzed (on the example of The Municipal Higher Educational Institution “Lutsk Pedagogical College” of the Volyn Regional Council). Research methods: analysis, synthesis, generalization and concretization.The article explains the research competence of a preschool teacher as an acquired, namely the future teacher ability formed in the process of professional training to apply scientific and research methods in pedagogical activity in order to improve the educational process, solve various complex (sometimes unpredictable) pedagogical problems, and introduceinnovations.A structural-functional model of the future educator research competence is proposed.The features of the future educators’ research competence formation are determined and analyzed: taking into account the specifics of educational activities in a modern preschool educational institution, its complexity, the interdependence of all participants in the educational process activities; the unity of theory and practice (research knowledge and research skills).Further research is required to develop tools and methods for diagnosing the state of future educators’ researchcompetence formation.