PREREQUISITES FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT AND DEVELOPMENT FACTORS OF LEGAL TRAINING OF OFFICERS IN HIGHER MILITARY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS OF UKRAINE (MID-XX – EARLY XXI CENTURY)

Abstract

Based on the analysis of scientific, educational and methodological literature, as well as archival sources, the author of the article substantiated the key prerequisites for the formation and development factors of the legal education of officers in higher military educational institutions of Ukraine. The author founds that important prerequisites for the process of legal education of officers in the higher military school of Ukraine of the studied period were the need to ensure military discipline, the dominance of Soviet legal understanding, and the complication of organizational and managerial relations in the military sphere. In addition, it was determined that during the middle of the 20th ‒ the beginning of the 21st century, the development of legal education as an element of the training of military specialists with higher education was influenced by three groups of factors: normative and legal; socio-political; socio-economic. Rethinking the experience of training military specialists with higher education, accumulated in Soviet times, can today be considered one of the urgent tasks of thehistory of domestic educational science. The analysis of achievements and miscalculations of educational theory and practice of the past allows us to determine further steps in reforming the school for training officers for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Therefore, the analysis of the process of formation of military education in Ukraine points to ways of its improvement. Legal education is an important component of the training of personnel whose task is to protect the sovereignty of the state. Keywords: legal education; legal upbringing; officer; prerequisites; factors; higher military school; military pedagogy; Soviet law.