21st Century Skills and Individual Basic Values of the Future IT Specialist: Education Perspective

• Authors: Yurii Pelekh , Ganna Shlikhta

Abstracts

EN

Given the reliance of the contemporary IT professional training process on a predetermined scenario for success outlined in educational programs and confined within local needs our research aimed to identify and examine effective ways of integrating spiritual and professional development for future specialists in the field of digital (IT) technologies. Our assumption was that the development of core values as a spiritual component of IT specialists influences the effectiveness of acquiring 21st century skills and shapes their professional competence. A correlational study was conducted to explore the relationship between the level of formation of core values in future IT specialists and the level of 21st century skills in these individuals. The research strategy was based on the application of distinct methods (Schwartz, S. H. (1992), Hixson, 2012, mathematical statistical methods – Kendall’s correlation analysis) to test the effectiveness of the author’s model. Its conceptual idea is to confirm the hypothesis that higher levels of 21st century skills correlate with higher levels of core values in future IT specialists. The results of the tasks revealed correlations between higher levels of 21st century skills and the core values of future IT specialists. This allowed confirming the leading idea of the research: Ukrainian students in IT specialties demonstrate the ability to acquire 21st century skills associated with values that support a “positive” vector in the functioning of an individual (benevolence, conformity, security, traditions, universalism, stimulation, and independence).

Keywords

EN

21st century skills; correlation; competence; IT specialists; values

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 75
• Pages: 176-188

Dates

published

2024

Contributors

author

Yurii Pelekh

• University of Rzeszow, Poland

author

Ganna Shlikhta

• Rivne State University of the Humanities, Ukraine

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.2024.75.1.14

Biblioteka Nauki

29520772