THE PROBLEM OF INDUSTRIAL TRAINING OF FUTURE PROFESSIONALS AGRO-ENGINEERING DIRECTION IN THE PEDAGOGICAL THEORY

Abstract

The article describes the concept of «industrial training» and «professional and practical (industrial) professional
training». It is studied the role of industrial training in preparing of future professionals of agro-engineering
direction. It is defined different kinds of practical work of students (agro-engineering direction). It is analyzed
the education activities of the university, that made possible to define contradictions between traditional system
of industrial training in universities and employers` request of the individual professional qualifications; content
and state of industrial practice in universities and the actual requirements for vocational practical preparedness of
experts; objective needs of education institutions in the new forms of practice etc.
It is concluded that industrial training, practical and theoretical training in selected profession in the process of
productive activity is the part of the student`s training in vocational and technical educational institutions. Industrial
training performs integrated function in the system of education. It helps to test the strength of knowledge acquired by
students, skills to transfer this knowledge into teaching and production activities, to form and strengthen the necessary
social and professionally significant qualities of future workers, assimilate the foundations of professional skills.
Industrial training is conducted under the guidance of masters, instructors, skilled workers and other professionals in
training and production workshops, laboratories, educational farms and in the workplace (in agricultural enterprises,
transport, construction, etc.).