COMPETENCE-BASED APPROACH TO THE PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF FUTURE SERGEANT-LEVEL SPECIALISTS IN INSTITUTIONS OF PROFESSIONAL PRE-HIGHER MILITARY EDUCATION

Abstract

The article examines the competence-based approach as a methodological foundation for the professional training of future sergeant-level specialists in institutions of professional pre-higher military education. The relevance of the problem is determined by the need to update the content of military education in accordance with the current requirements of service and combat activities, the increasing role of sergeant personnel in managing primary military units, operating weapons and military equipment, organizing the training of subordinates, maintaining discipline, and ensuring the physical, moral, and psychological readiness of personnel. It is substantiated that the competence-based approach ensures the reorientation of the educational process from the predominant acquisition of knowledge, skills, and abilities towards the formation of the learner’s capacity to act effectively in real conditions of future military-professional activity. It is determined that the integral competence of the programme performs the function of a generalized learning outcome and reflects the ability of a future sergeant-level specialist to solve typical specialized tasks in the field of weapons and military equipment, apply the principles and methods of military sciences, act under conditions of uncertainty, bear responsibility for the results of their own activities, and exercise control over other persons in defined situations. General competences are considered as the basis of professional readiness, encompassing civic-value, practice-oriented, information-communication, and team-interaction components. Special competences are characterized as the foundation of professional training aimed at developing managerial, technical-operational, organizational, military-pedagogical, and physical-functional abilities. Particular attention is paid to military-professional competences, which are defined as an indicator of the service and combat readiness of future sergeant-level specialists. Their content includes the ability to act as part of a unit, organize command and control in various types of combat, make substantiated decisions, maintain statutory order, monitor the moral and psychological state of subordinates, operate under prolonged physical and psychological stress, organize the physical training of personnel, and provide pre-medical aid in accordance with the standards of tactical medicine. Military-specialized competences are revealed as the profile of specialization that ensures the readiness of learners to operate communication systems, electronic communication networks, specialized information systems, and automated command and control systems for troops and weapons in everyday and combat conditions.