The thesis is devoted to improvement of the future civilian fleet officers’ ecological training by means of interactive technologies. Modern tendencies of formation ecological competence in pedagogical theory and practice are defined, among them are: actualization of ecological education of the future specialist personality, axiologization of the studied phenomenon deontological component, ecological imperative as a methodological mark for the formation of ecological competence, innovation of ecological education through the realization of competence and active, cultural and axiological, integrative and intersubject approaches, for the implementation of which interactive technologies can be used.
It is established that the optimal environment for the formation of the future civilian fleet officers’ ecological competence is using of pedagogical interactive technologies in higher educational establishments, which give the opportunity for cadets to test samples of ecologically-oriented professional behavior during the study, using models of professional activities prototypes subjects’ interaction. Interactive education in the context of our research was considered as a way of knowing ecological reality, carried out in forms of the future civilian fleet officers’ joint activity (sea and river transports): all the participants of educational process interact with each other, exchange the ecological information, together solve the problems of nature using, simulate problematic ecological situations, evaluate participants’ actions and their own behavior, immerse into the real atmosphere of business cooperation in solving problems, including ecological ones.
In the process of researching the essence, content and structure of the future civilian fleet officers’ ecological competence is specified, its components (motivational worldview, ecologically legal, behaviorally active, personal-reflective), criteria (motivation of students to nature conservation and harmonization of relationships in system «civil fleet – water resources»; volume, depth and system of the future civilian fleet officers’ ecological knowledge about the nature, structure and methods of carrying out professional activity from the point of view of the environmental preservation; expression cadets’ skills and abilities, which are necessary for elucidation of preconditions, content and solution of ecological problems that appear in professional activity; ability of cadets to self-examination, reflection, objective self-evaluation of life from the standpoint of observance of ecological laws, norms, rules), indicators and levels (creative (high), executive (medium), reproductive (admissible), intuitive (low)) of its formation are concretized.
It is established that positive effect on the process of formation of the future civilian fleet officers’ ecological competence will be achieved through the realization of series of pedagogical conditions. The effectiveness of the realization of pedagogical conditions set is theoretically grounded, experimentally checked and proven.
In the context of our study the structural-functional model is developed and directed at improving efficiency of formation of the future civilian fleet officers’ ecological competence by means of interactive technologies and comprehended five blocks: target (aim); theoretical contented (competence approach; legislative and regulatory acts, which regulate the process of professional, including ecological, training of the future civilian fleet officers; didactic specialities of using interactive technologies means in the process of formation of the studied cadets’ phenomenon; educational principles); technological (means of interactive study, pedagogical conditions); analytical and evaluative (components, levels of formation of the future civilian fleet officers’ ecological competence); resultative (result).
