SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATIONS OF THE XXI CENTURY IN THE FIELD OF MARITIME EDUCATION: HISTORICAL ASPECT AND PERSPECTIVES

Abstract

The article represents vector directions of researches of various aspects of maritime education both in military and civilian areas of its development. It is emphasized that researches aimed at revealing the issues of training sailors, in particular, officers of the tactical and operational level; historical and pedagogical researches (history of formation and development of maritime education in Ukraine) prevail in the XXI century, studies of a comparative character are less numerous.
The purpose of the article is to outline the main provisions represented by the researchers of maritime education, highlighting areas of research in the context of the Maritime Doctrine of Ukraine by 2035 and the Priority directions of scientific researches and scientific and technical (experimental) developments of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine for 2018-2022.
The main provisions of the cognitive theory about the unity of processes, interactions, and interdependencies of environmental phenomena in specific historical conditions and a set of interrelated approaches (holistic, synergistic, interdisciplinary, task, activity) and complementary methods (general-scientific, thematic, content analysis, designing), in particular, content analysis, generalization, the study of documentation, comprise the methodological basis of the study. The scientific novelty of the study is to outline the vector directions of the researches of perspective issues of maritime education in military and civilian fields based on a retrospective content analysis of the researches in the XXI century.
It is concluded that comparative researches are perspective as a new vector of scientific research, which involves studying the productive experience of the developed maritime countries and/or countries undergoing political and economic transformations to identify assets that should be adapted for use in native education and marine space; researches aimed at revealing the complex problems of training highly qualified specialists in the maritime profile in the adoption of new state standards of higher education, relevant strategies, concepts, doctrines that determine the development of maritime education and science in both military and civilian fields.