Keyword: «human capital»

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.