Shishkinа O.V. 1
1 NOU VPO «Vyatka Social and Economic Institute»
The paper presents approaches to space, educational space, information space in education, information and cognitive space in modern pedagogical science , characterized by their common trends. Actualized in the importance of rethinking the design of educational space for successful professional self-identity as a public interest and social order. In order to improve the process of professional self - awareness is proposed to consider the cognitive space that includes an educational portal. High school students have the opportunity to see the range of directions / profiles of the educational institution, the specificity of the educational process , practices and future employment, as well as the announcement of events taking place at the university, and to take active part in them. This allows high school students in the process of informal dialogue with the students enrolled at the university in different courses and directions, become informed on a wide range of vocational training. The author considers science approaches to understanding the professional self. Marked specificity and peculiarities of this process in boys and girls.