Forming the special competence of masters on the basis of CASE-method.

Abstract

In the conditions of market economy educational establishments require high effective management based on modern conceptions, strategies and models of management and oriented on achievement of a certain result. It provides forming managers of new generation who will be able to think and do systematically in crisis situations, to take decisions in any sphere of educational activity and effectively use the given recourses. In this connection there appears a problem of forming the masters' special competence (future managers of educational establishments).

The aim of the article is theoretical grounding of using case-method at forming the special competences of future educational establishments managers.

In the article there has been theoretically grounded the use of the case-method at forming the special competence of future managers of educational establishments. There has been defined the notion of case-method as a specially prepared educational material (structural description of situations borrowed in real practice); there have been defined some advantages of case-method and skills which this method develops (analytical, practical, creative, communicative, social); there have been determined the demands to cases and peculiarities of their preparation; there have been given examples of cases and aims of their using at teaching of the discipline “Psychology and Ethics of Business Communication”.

The most important skill which master gets during study is an ability to percept any visual, verbal information, think independently, to take decisions appreciating its possible effects, to define optimal ways of realization of this decision. 

In the article we have come to the conclusion that the use of case-method at forming the special competence of future managers of educational establishments contributes improvement of ability to solve professional problems and tasks connected with management (planning, organization, control, taking managerial decision, diagnostics, prognostication, coordination and regulating) of educational process.

Key words:

business communication; case-method; master; special competence.