USING OF A PHENOMENON OF INITIATION IN THE SYSTEM OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

Abstract

The general crisis of professional education system, both western and domestic, induces to its deeper analysis involving the wider cultural context. From the point of view of adaptation approach, professional education can be considered as a process of adaptation of the individual and community to performance of professional activity. Having considered the essence and dynamics of adaptation process, a phenomenon of initiation in professional education system is proved. Education has the purpose and indissolubly interfaced with changes of social and psychological status of the individual, and reveal the aspect of manifest presented by initiations. Classification of events-rituals and events-initiations in education on the bases of degree of a generality of ritual, a form and the moment of event-initiation can be constructed. Each similar initiation can be characterized by the central event, initial and final states of a person, three stages of initiation – segregation, transition and incorporation. The ideology and forms of practical application of ceremonies and rituals of initiation in higher education institutions and other institutions of professional education define, respectively, the direction and the importance of consequences to use a phenomenon of initiation in educational process. The possibility for correction of trainee’s value orientations is especially distinguished among such consequences.