Keyword: «college student»

The modern determination of secondary vocational education as a sphere of human capital development involves the use of adequate theoretical and methodological guidelines. In this regard, a human-oriented approach is of scientific interest, the synthesizing core of which is a holistic, versatile person in his/her many hypostases (individual, subject, personality, universe) in modern life. The purpose of the research is the scientific contemplation, interpretation and approbation of this human-oriented approach as a theoretical and methodological directive for the development of college students’ human capital. It was conducted using methods of analysis, synthesis, comparison, generalization, observation, survey, expert assessment, diagnostics, statistics. Results: the state of the scrutinized problem in modern educational practice and the degree of its scientific development are defined; the methodological and experimental research base is determined; the essence of the human-oriented approach as a theoretical and methodological directive for the development of human capital of a college student is revealed and interpreted; recommendations for its use are formulated. The scientific novelty of the research results lies in the fact that for the first time the human-oriented approach has become the subject of scientific examination and interpretation in the context of the development of college students’ human capital; its main ideas, principles, resources, generalized image of effectiveness and diagnostic formats in this context have been identified. The theoretical significance of the research results represents a contribution to the theory of secondary vocational education with knowledge about this approach as the most adequate theoretical and methodological directive for the development of human capital of a college student in modern realities. And the practical significance lies in the possibility of using innovative socio-pedagogical systems and technologies for the development of human capital of a college student in the design, to modulate the domestic system of secondary vocational education on their basis as a sphere of human capital development and modernization of educational programs for appropriate retraining of professional teaching staff and mentors.

The article considers the actual problem of choosing an educational trajectory for students of the 1st and 4th (graduate) courses of secondary vocational education. To identify the factors influencing educational and career choices, a questionnaire method was used, in which 43 students of the music college participated. This method allowed us to identify some trends and patterns in the trajectory of the respondents