Professional education of officers: modern trends

Abstract

Introduction. The professional education of Russian officers has always been of particular importance in ensuring its security and sovereignty. During the periods of the highest military victories and successes, it was based on national ideas and values, folk and military traditions. The beginning of their modern revival in our country provides a unique opportunity for the development of a full-fledged institute of professional education, conducting its activities on a scientific pedagogical basis. Materials and Methods. In the course of this study, the methodological foundations were system, socio-cultural and axiological approaches. The key concepts studied and used in the work are "professional education", its "ideological and value foundations", "modern trends in education", "traditions and innovations in education". Results. Professional education of officers in higher military educational institutions is understood by us as a systematic and planned activity of the state, society, military administration bodies for the training of highly professional military specialists, patriots of the Fatherland, carried out by pedagogical methods and means. Ideology plays a special role in education, which gives students an attractive image of the future, and values, the internalization of which ensures the formation of professionally necessary qualities in cadets and students. As revealed in the course of the study (5 monographs have been prepared on the problem, 4 of which are collective, and 16 articles in the journals of the RSCI and the Higher Attestation Commission of the Russian Federation), corporate (officer) traditions play a special role in professional education. The result of the effectiveness of professional education based on the ideas and values of Russian officers in the Novosibirsk VVKU is the readiness of graduates to defend the Fatherland. In the post– Soviet period, thousands of graduates were awarded state awards, 26 of them were awarded the title of "Hero of the Russian Federation", including 7 for participation in a Special military operation. Discussion and Conclusions. The professional education of cadets and students of military universities is successfully carried out on the idea of patriotism and national Russian values, approved by Decree No 809 of 9.11.2022. Its current trends are: – the formation of a nationally-oriented value-ideological basis; – return to the ideas of collective education that meet the ethnic traditions of the peoples of Russia; – balanced use of traditional and innovative forms and methods of education; – pedagogization of modern professional education, rejection of excessive use of manipulative technologies, priority use of persuasion and example methods by teachers.