No 1 (2024)

The process of developing professional communicative competence (PCC) of an employee of internal affairs agencies occurs during the period of learning at a higher educational institution of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In this regard, the issue of how and by what means the specified competence can be formed during the educational process is quite relevant. The paper presents the author’s methodology for developing the professional communicative competence of cadets and describes the system of its methodological support. The author proposes the systematic implementation of the methodology for developing professional communicative competence. The content of each stage has its own specifics and depends on the communicative position of a cadet in educational interaction, which is expressed in particular strategies reflecting the repertoire of the cadet’s role positions, tactics of pedagogical actions, organizational forms, methodological tools, teaching aids, and the expected result inherent in a certain stage. The methodology for developing professional communicative competence has its own system of methodological support represented by a set of resources: scientific and methodological support, diagnostic support tools, methodological resources, electronic resources; it is easily reproducible and has a distinct practice-oriented nature. The presented methodology for forming professional communicative competence and the system of its methodological support proved their effectiveness during testing at the pilot stage of the experiment. Based on the results of its use, positive dynamics was recorded among the experimental group respondents expressed in an increase in the number of cadets with productive and constructive levels of professional communicative competence formedness.

The role of values in individual and social consciousness has been discussed for a long time. The issue of interpretation of value orientations that determine the process of choosing life strategies and regulating the social behavior of a person and society is equally significant and studied. The purpose of the work is to identify basic values and analyze the parameters of value orientations both of an individual and of a social group of student youth. The reflexive methodology for identifying values was chosen as a research method. The empirical technology of double open questions made it possible, based on freely recorded values and individual conceptual ideas, to identify the key value orientations of students, which can be taken as a basis when developing effective technology solutions for optimizing the learning of university students. The study involved 90 students of pedagogical training program at the Volgograd State Agrarian University aged from 18 to 26 years, of which, there were 52 girls and 38 boys. Quantitative and qualitative assessments allowed considering the features of life values according to their degree of popularity, significance and satisfaction with them of future teachers as part of student youth and one of the forms of national identity manifestation. The results of the study showed that family, health, and material well-being are highly popular in the structure of life values of future teachers. Patriotism, efficiency in business and family are considered significant values in life. The greatest satisfaction with the state was revealed for such values as sharing experience with young people, family and education. Such orientations as dignity, honor, faith, goodness, joy, happiness, responsibility, and environment improvement are weakly represented.