Some aspects of concept implementation of continuing technological education

This article considers a current pedagogical problem of adaptation to changes in the labor market of certain categories of citizens. It is shown that people of 45-50 having higher education are disinterested in profound knowledge in their field of study, significant experience in management of people taking active social position, standard pedagogical goals of training and refresher training courses, and frequently all listed above are unacceptable for them. This is particularly concern technical specialists, middle managers, living in small towns with population of 100 thousand people, company towns, towns and villages, significantly remote from megalopolises, where a system of continuing technological education is absent or there are only some of its elements. In such circumstances people do not have an opportunity for in-plant training, since there are no higher educational institutions, where they can be retrained in related professions demanded in the labor market, and there is no any specific range of communication (meetings, seminars, conferences) where knowledge, information and experience can be transferred. In such conditions further improving of their skills in the framework of the traditional technology becomes impractical, and retraining, for example, in work specializations, impossible for reasons concerning lower social status. In this paper we propose a new approach to retraining and advanced training of these categories of citizens: their mastering of all-purpose actions for application of existing technologies for producing and further realization of goods, jobs and services with new consumer properties, including: universal educational action for receiving “qualitative” and “quantitative” description of a “new product” with consumer properties desired; universal educational action for evaluation of capabilities of well-known technology for a “new product” production, the development of network technology map of its production with determination of weight of each technological operation composed of prime cost; universal educational action for practical manufacture of a model sample and its performance of “commodity” type; universal educational action for the organization of advertising campaigns (presentations) in the Internet, determination of the sales price of a “new product” unit, the organization of technical support system for our customers. It is shown that technological education in this case can be implemented via distance technologies. In this case the pedagogical process provides the variety of existing applied technologies and algorithms for their application, the universality of actions in the context of the pedagogical objective and the methods to achieve it. The paper presents the examples of successful application of the approach considered for producing products with new consumer properties - GPRS trackers used for high precision of the tillage of soil for cultivated crops, and for services - organization of ethnographic village for a tourist itinerary of day-off in Errtil’s district of Voronezh region.

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