Students are the most cultured part of youth in all
countries, which is the main unit in the
environment of higher education, an important
source of reproduction of the intelligentsia, that
is, it is the subject that, first of all, acquires higher
education. The object to which his subjective
activity is directed is "education". The system of
value orientations of the individual, the desire for
new ideas, the intense search for the meaning of
life, and the personal experience gained during
the student period allow the student to reflect on
the personal meaning of education, to show a
subjective position about education, to make a
subjective choice of educational programs.
Teachers should help the student to become the
subject of the activity. Just as subjectivity
ensures the development of personality, its
individuality, and the universality of every
person, it is necessary for the process of self-
improvement and self-development. The
mechanism of professional self-development
accommodates the understanding of one's
professional activity, provides the ability to
analyze the causes of failures and the conditions
of their occurrence, their rethinking, and, at the
same time, the skillful updating of goals and
objectives. The self-development of a specialist
is related to the choice of a professional
development strategy and takes place in the
conditions of adaptation to the profession and
based on the individual's understanding of the
role of the profession and himself in the
profession.
The concretization of the formation of the
professional subjectivity of future specialists in
the field of psychology and pedagogy in the
environment of higher education is connected
with the ratio of "general" and "specific". Thus,
"general" is determined by the specific training
of a future competitive specialist and the
conditions of education in higher education.
Hence, the subject position allows the student to:
subjectively use educational conditions;
determine the personal attitude of the received
education; design and implement an individual
educational position. "Specific" in the institution
of higher education makes the subject position of
the student the subject of future professional
activity.
To increase the effectiveness of training future
specialists, now students, it is necessary to
develop subjectivity in them, the ability to be the
creator of oneself, the subject of activity, and the
ability to study independently. But it is
impossible to become a creative subject of
professional activity if one is not a subject of
educational activity in the process of acquiring
higher education. In this regard, it is necessary to
guide the student to move from one level of
culture of the educational activity to a higher one
– creativity.
The manifestation of the professional
subjectivity of future specialists in the field of
psychology and pedagogy in the environment of
higher education develops and reflects
individuality, the subjectivity of a personal
position, authorship, and the development of
prospects for further self-development; gives the
activity a creative, unique originality, acts as the
antipode of the normative and role position of the
subject. With such an approach, the subjectivity
of the future specialist appears as a special form
of organization, manifestation, active attitude to
oneself as a subject of relations with the
environment, attitude to students as unique
subjects, to professional activity as creative and
innovative, in which his self-development takes
place own existence in the space of professional
activity (Kolodko, 2018).
Let us single out the leading characteristics of the
formation of the professional subjectivity of
future specialists in the field of psychology and
pedagogy in the environment of higher
education:
1) valuable motivation of activity, actions, and
behavior, which demonstrates the causality
of the personality and its activity;
2) activity, which characterizes the individual's
ability to professional activity to achieve its
goals, as a subject of activity to conscious
purposeful actions;
3) the ability to self-reflection, reflection,
which makes it possible to understand one's
motives, actions, one's behavior, and the
behavior of other people, which contributes
to self-control, self-evaluation, self-
regulation, self-determination of one's
actions, deeds, and activities;
4) perceived modality – understanding by the
individual, as a subject of activity, of his
own professional, personal, subject features;
5) variability, which gives an individual the
ability to purposefully determine and
regulate his behavior and independently and
consciously choose means of activity
depending on their modality (Yagupov et al.,
2012).
We will describe the main indicators of
professional subjectivity.
1. Awareness of the essence of professional
activity. The indicator assumes the