WEAPON REPAIR WORKSHOPS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF THE NATIONAL GUARD OF UKRAINE AS AN ENVIRONMENT FOR CADETS’ TECHNOLOGICAL COMPETENCE FORMATION

In the research in line with the objectives of modernization of the higher military education system of Ukraine, using the materials from the experience of the National Academy of the National Guard of Ukraine, the design of a weapons repair workshop as an educational and production environment for the cadets’ technological competence formation is considered. The structure of the educational and production workshop is detailed in the integrity and interaction of six areas (welding work areas; areas for the repair of individual armor protection and active defense; areas for the repair of weapons; areas for the repair and maintenance of optical devices; areas of mechanical work; areas of carpentry work) and boxing for large-caliber weapons. In order to implement the operational principles of military specialists’ technological competence formation, a characterization of the professional technique (a set of methods and techniques of pedagogical influence, interpersonal interaction of cadets and teachers, and the ability to design and construct new professional technologies) was carried out at three stages of humanitarian and pedagogical technology introduction – initial, basic, final. A conclusion was made regarding the possibilities of this type of educational and production workshops in military higher education institutions to form future officers’ technological competence. Educational and production workshops are the environment for providing educational, technical, and production practices of specialists majoring in 255 Armaments and military equipment, who have broad opportunities to realize creative and technological abilities and accumulate their own experience in the application of technical means in a combat situation and realities of peacetime.