Formation diagnostics of future managers and leaders of educational process

摘要

This paper focuses on the anticipative possibility (prognostic competence) of the head of an educational institution as a leader of the educational process. We perceive it as a complex integral formation which indicates the level of anticipatory abilities development, as a special ability of the head to organize a peculiar type of professional and pedagogical activity, aimed at obtaining advanced information about the prospects of institution development with the aim of forming a policy and strategy in the field of education and making advisable decisions in this sphere. Our paper summarizes the results of the conducted research on the diagnosis of the formation of the anticipatory capacity of future heads of secondary education institutions as leaders of the educational process at the ascertain stage of the experiment. The results of the empirical analysis reveal the anticipation awareness, positive motivation for forecasting in managing activities, the level of development of anticipative abilities, and the level of development of logical thinking of future managers of Nizhyn Mykola Gogol State University and school principals in Chernihiv region. Our results demonstrated that the experience of management activity has formed more awareness in leaders of the importance of anticipation in relation to future education managers. At the same time, the lack of deep knowledge about the anticipation of management activity, its structure and functions does not allow school heads to manage the staff of the institution more consciously and flexibly, to maintain a correlation between the forecasts of its development. Our study empirically confirms and theoretically proves that the criteria and indicators developed on basis of theoretical analysis, the research methods used are informative in relation to the study of anticipative ability.