Engineering Pedagogy in Vocational Education: Methodological Aspect

The paper examines the questions concerning the methodological status of engineering pedagogy in the system of vocational education, specifies its subject area. The authors substantiate the system approach in the study of engineering pedagogy – within the framework of the full-component system of vocational pedagogical education, which allows identifying implicit and apical components in the content of engineering pedagogy, as well as its determinants of invariance. The paper shows the changes in the structure of vocational education denoting trends in the development of engineering pedagogy, its place and role in the system of vocational education. The authors argue that methodological issues of engineering pedagogy should be viewed from the position of the whole system of vocational pedagogical education including the levels of initial, secondary and higher education, taking into account the general patterns and regularities characterizing its structure and functioning. Engineering pedagogy should be viewed as a part of this whole system, and its content should be worked out on the basis of the general sectoral qualification-level determinant – the same object area