Educational experience of reflection developing in the personal competencies structure of students studying management

The article proposes an approach to the development of reflection skills of managers in professional training. The study was conducted at the Tomsk State University (Tomsk, Russia) with senior students earning a degree in "Management" and who are participants of the interdepartmental educational project "Innovation Projects Management". The total sample group is 126 students. The potential of the reflective seminar as a tool revealing educational phenomena was considered. The approach to understand reflection as a mechanism of personal evaluation of life world, its value-sense composition and occurring changes was argued. The major objectives of the seminar included: development of skills to reflect upon the dynamics of personal changes; development of skills to reflect upon the preparedness and ability to introduce oneself to the project partners in joint project activities and to understand partners' behavioral reactions. Various questionnaire techniques are used to monitor dynamics of personal changes of the seminar's participants. The research data on the phenomenon of cen-tration-decentration as a necessary condition for revelation of readiness to understand the Others and the Self were analyzed. Reflection, being the determinant of organization of creative thinking, is included in the mechanisms of emergence of new psychological formations as well as in the process of "inscribing" new senses and values in the worldview. High level of reflection development becomes apparent in behaviour and activity transformation, in sense-making and sense transformation, in searching for alternative ways of solution to particular problems, in acts of involvement of a person in creative processes, in self-actualization processes. Comparison of conceptions of professionally significant qualities which are necessary for a professional in a particular field with conceptions of existence and the degree of expression of these qualities in themselves as a rule becomes a subject of the young people's reflection frequently occurring spontaneously at the first stage of professional self-determination, choice of the future profession when entering a university. While studying at the university students broaden horizons, make more specific and objectify their knowledge about particular character of some personal qualities significant for successful professional training and development. If continuously replicated inconsistency between worldview and value-sense contents of learning and professional activity (determining the attitude towards an activity as to the way of self-actualization) is considered as a source of self-development for the young people, then the form of the reflective seminar offers a variety of opportunities to actualize the need for self-development.

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