Dialectics of tradition and innovation in pedagogical education of teachers of economic focus

This article examines the experience of training teachers of finance and economics at a pedagogical university in terms of the dialectic of tradition and innovation. An analytical review of periodicals revealed that the current era can be characterized as a time of searching for answers to questions about how to integrate purposeful and spontaneous innovations into sustainable and productive traditions in the pedagogical education of future teachers of economics and financial literacy. The line between tradition and innovation is conditional and fluid: what was perceived as new yesterday (competencies, project-based methods) is becoming the norm today, and classical values (fundamentalism, scientific rigor) are taking on a new meaning in the digital environment. The article describes the stages of development of the scientific and methodological work of the Economics Department, highlighting the factors that determined the origin, functioning, and evolution of traditions at the Faculty of Computer Science and Economics. The significance of traditions and innovations in the academic and extracurricular activities of the faculty is examined. The paper presents the results of a sociological survey: traditions and innovations through the prism of students' life choices. The study demonstrated that, in today's environment, innovative activities at pedagogical universities are becoming a productive scientific tradition. On the one hand, they serve as a means of renewing state educational policy. On the other hand, they serve as a means of mastering new goals and objectives, new disciplines, and new content. The dialectic of tradition and innovation in higher pedagogical education consists of maintaining a balance between the «unknown» and the «known» in the context of universal values and ensures the successful functioning of the system for training future teachers. The study resulted in a systematization of the practical experience of the Economics Department by stages and the selection of a development direction in the constantly changing socioeconomic conditions of the region.