Self-knowledge and ways of its improvement amongst university learners

In the prevailing era, to succeed in the professional area, an educator, in addition to a piece of particular knowledge should excel at the capacity to organize, examine and curb their actions separately, establish themselves extra educational assignments and resolve them, be keen on self-growth and able to boost it. The presented article is aimed at the improvement of self-knowledge amongst the students of pedagogical specialties. Considering the studies of the researchers of Russian, the writers of the survey illuminated the kinds of self-knowledge, and relevant kinds of educational assignments that are utilized in the expert preparation of prospective teachers. The complex comprises the subsequent parts: creating a positive, passionate atmosphere throughout training sessions with students; the application of reflexive pedagogical technologies in the process of education at the university, contributing to the improvement of self-knowledge between prospective educators and enhancing the status of their education.