POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION OF SECONDARY EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS MANAGERS: RESULTS OF THE STUDY ON TECHNOLOGICAL CULTURE DEVELOPMENT

The article presents the results of an experimental study of the pedagogical conditions (orientation of the content of advanced training on modern requirements of the technological culture development, personality-oriented focus of the educational process, implementation of complexity, integration and innovation of training, use of active and interactive teaching methods) of the technological culture development of secondary education institutions managers in the system of postgraduate education. Technological culture is considered as an integrative quality of personality which provides a specific way of using modern technology formed by combination of technification of the management process, values of the modern information world, professionally significant personal qualities and motives of activity. It is proved that the phenomenon of technological culture is genetically related to motives, values, self-identity, and also includes a set of knowledge and skills to identify technological needs in the process of obtaining information, its evaluation and effective use. Thus, technological culture encompasses technological competence, as well as values and motives of an individual aimed at adaptation to changes caused by the rapid pace of development of information society and digital technologies. The structure of technological culture, i.e. motivational, social, strictly professional components, has been justified; four levels of its development: intuitive, basic, sufficient, and creative have been characterized. The course and results of the pedagogical experiment to verify scientifically grounded pedagogical conditions have been described and analyzed: in the experimental group, the number of participants with the intuitive level decreased by 6%, with the basic level - by 9%, with the sufficient level – increased by 8%, and with the creative level – by 7%; the number of managers who have reached the creative level increased in the experimental group to 24.19%. The results proved the effectiveness of the proposed and experimentally tested pedagogical conditions of the technological culture development