An innovative approach to the formation of the readiness of bachelors of commodity science for professional expert activity

Krotova Irina Vladimirovna, Rybakova Galina Raisovna, Fedchenko Elena Aleksandrovna

The article deals with the actual problems of higher commodity science education, to which the authors attribute the violation of meaningful continuity between the levels of professional education; the lack of commodity science of non-food and part of food products in the list of scientific specialties; the uncertainty of the status of the science "commodity science"; insufficient development of theoretical and methodological tools used to solve the problems of commodity science education. The authors place a special emphasis in the article on the problem of forming the readiness of future bachelors of commodity science for professional expert activity. As one of the possible solutions to this problem, the implementation of the author's professional training program "Path to the specialty" is proposed, the methodological basis of which is a combination of systemic, activity-based and reflexive approaches. The core of this program was the involvement of future bachelors of commodity science in the process of preparing and implementing the procedure for consumer testing of goods, followed by analysis of the data obtained and reflection on their own achievements. The experience of implementing this program in the educational practice of the Siberian Federal University has confirmed its effectiveness and efficiency.

Keywords:commodity science; professional activity; bachelor of commodity science; readiness; innovative methods.