MODERNIZATION OF PREPARATION OF FUTURE PROFESSIONALS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT BODIES TO PROFESSIONAL SELF-IMPROVEMENT

Анотація

Under new challenges of Ukrainian society, modern domestic and world standards, the need to change a paradigm of professional training of law enforcement officers is becoming more actual. The practice-oriented context of professional training focuses on future law enforcement professionals to actively develop their own personality, continuous professional development, self-improvement through acquisition of necessary knowledge and skills, in particular, the mastery of skills for self-improvement throughout life.

The author substantiates a psychological and pedagogical problem of professional self-improvement as the basis for forming readiness of future law enforcement officers, a prerequisite for ensuring a high level of professionalism and professional achievements, ability to personal, professional, creative self-development and productive activity in the law-enforcement sphere.

It is proved that professional education of future law enforcement officers should be based on humanistic philosophy and promote a disclosure of a creative potential of subjects of a pedagogical process. The analysis of methodological approaches, in particular: synergistic, axiological, acmeological, activity, competence, anthropological in a system of professional training of future specialists of law enforcement bodies is carried out.

The outlined methodological approaches were analyzed as a conceptual foundations of self-improvement, which reveal its structure (competence, values, etc.) and mechanisms of implementation, provide a holistic understanding of the said phenomenon.

It is determined that a formation of professional self-improvement of future specialists of law-enforcement bodies requires appropriate pedagogical conditions and methodological support, which involves a mobilization of a future specialist’s personal resources, synergy of efforts of specialists of various sciences and branches (philosophy, psychology, pedagogy, culturology, sociology, valeology, genetics, ecology, medicine, etc.) and so on.

In addition, formation of an ability to self-improvement ensures that future law-enforcers develop their own system of goals, values, benchmarks, ideals that increase a level of their professional training, activities in professional environment, direct the logic and dynamics of professional development and life-creativity.