SPECIFICITY OF DEVELOPMENT FUTURE SEALERS’ PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE IN UKRAINIAN MARITIME EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS (90TH YEARS OF XXTH – BEGINNING OF XXIST CENTURY)

Abstract

The purpose of the publication is to highlight the current problems of maritime education in Ukraine, in particular the specifics of the functioning of educational institutions to ensure the development of professional competence in future sealers. Changes in the content and tasks of preparation of applicants for maritime education have been monitored, a set of factors that have influenced them during the analyzed period has been identified.

In the article substantiates the theoretical and methodological foundations of the problem, describes the practical steps in the direction of implementing a competent approach to the educational activities of future specialists in Ukrainian maritime educational institutions. Studying a polyaspectic source base on a search problem helped to identify a clear problem vector and identify a range of problems that did not receive sufficient coverage. These include a content analysis of key concepts, the identification of a constructive experience of building a direction during the current stage, the search for effective ways to professionalize the Navy in the present.

The article identifies the nature of the shifts in the achievements and prospects of quality training for future sailors in the XXth and XXIst centuries and traces the transformation of approaches to solving urgent problems in this problem field at the present stage of development of Ukrainian maritime industry.

Particular attention is paid to the development of maritime education in the context of international cooperation, the impact of European integration, world experience on the development of mechanisms for the providing of proper education, and the resolution of issues that currently arise in the national system of education.

The main results are the emphasis on the formation of future sailors, along with highly specialized skills, flexible, soft skills. These include: communicative, cognitive and emotional skills. Their development should ensure a high level of fulfillment by future professionals of professional activity, as it will contribute to the ability to constructively solve problematic situations, to quickly orient in a dynamic world and to respond promptly to changes in it.