Education by professions: to the theoretical substantiation of the modern strategy of professional education

The article is devoted to the specifics of professional education of students, which is largely due to the content of training, as well as the position that a particular profession occupies in the surrounding reality. Understanding the challenges of the time creates the need to develop a special scientific theory of the world of professions as a special segment of human activity. The purpose of the work is to outline the most important contours of this theory as a methodological basis for solving modern problems of professional education, for the justification of the strategy of which the philosophical theory of the genesis, functioning and development of the world of professions is proposed, the significant components of which are formed in the legacy of the outstanding Russian thinker M. K. Petrov. The article explicates the key ideas for the construction of this theory, set out taking into account the uncertainty of modern realities as a factor in the development of the world of professions and the choice of guidelines in the field of professional education. An effective response to the challenge of the time is impossible without using the potential of the “common” culture of humanity in the educational process, the actualization of which in the theory and practice of professional education has been and remains a reliable guarantee of high performance in the conditions of increasing uncertainty in all spheres of public and private life.