vocational education

Abstract. The article is devoted to the issue of developing the professional culture of future service industry workers within the context of vocational and technical education institutions. Based on the analysis of scientific literature on the topic, the essence of the concept of professional culture for service sector specialists has been clarified, its main components–motivational, knowledge-based, and activity-related–have been identified, and the key indicators of its development at various levels (low, medium, and high) have been established.

Problem setting. Nowadays the content of secondary education in Ukraine does not take into account individual characteristics of the students and it is not focused on the formation of creative potential and  system of  knowledge by interests, the educational process is overburdened with secondary factual material and  is overly regulated. It necessitates the search  and implementation of new approaches to organization of  educational process in high school.