Role of interdisciplinary integration in the formation of professional competence in future ecologists

Abstract

At the research there was carried out the generalization of the different classifications of interdisciplinary connections, on which use the professional competence of future ecologists is formed at the study of academic discipline “Monitoring of environment”. This research favors the elaboration of the structural-logic scheme of the process of future ecologists’ training for mastering the polyfunctional professional competences as a result of integrated study. Four main content blocs of interdisciplinary implementation were separated at the structural-logic analysis:

– fundamental (disciplines of the natural-scientific training course);

–       evaluative (disciplines that develop mathematical, axiological, qualitological abilities for solving certain ecological problems);

– applied (connections that form the ability to evaluate the influence of harmful factors on environment, to determine and elaborate the arrangements as to protection and saving of natural resources);

– system-modeling (connections that provide the ability to: the use of ecosystem approach for the analysis, diagnostics, prognostication of ecological problems).

 The professional competences were specified by the content-thematic models of the natural-scientific and professionally oriented cycles of training in integral study of environment monitoring. In general all existing connections may be referred to the system-modeling ones, because they are aimed at the formation of fundamental-professional-practical competences that favors the solution of complicated, complex ecological problems. The knowledge of professional training are deepened, generalized, gain scientific character due to interdisciplinary integration that favors the introduction of changes to the content of learning programs and their renewal