E-learning and economism in regard to the psychic health and development of seafarers' leadership

Abstract

The article analyses the problems of e-learning and economism in regard to the psychic health and development of future seafarers’ leadership. The research object is maritime professional development. The object has been researched at the scientific level of e-learning, economism and leadership. The research goal is identification of the problems of maritime professional development from the ideological and psychosocial point of view of e-learning, economism and leadership. Tasks are as follows: characterization of e-learning as a problem at the level of development of psychic health of the personality, revelation of protestant - Calvinistic - ideology as the eventual factor of maritime economism, and description of the valuable possibility of development of future seafarers’ leadership. The research methodology is based on the STCW convention, the paradigm of universal upbringing, idealism, humanism, existentialism and existential phenomenology. The universal upbringing of the future seafarers is substantiated anthropologically and should be the main valuable direction of the maritime education of leadership in regard to the seafarers’ work reality.