Korol Y. Formation of the Future Officers’ Professional Readiness to Apply Radiation-Chemical Protection Means

The dissertation deals with researching the problems of formation of the future officers’ professional readiness to apply radiation-chemical protection means. The theoretical bases of training of the future officers for conducting professional activity have been revealed. The peculiarities of training of the future officers to apply radiation-chemical protection means in the process of studying professional disciplines have been studied. To these belong: professional orientation of training of the future officers to study professional disciplines in the field of military competence and readiness to apply radiation-chemical protection means; modernization of the educational process organization for the readiness of effective implementing of compound complex actions of radiation-chemical protection to enhance the practical component; the systematic nature of educational activity for forming high readiness of the future officers for professional activity, the formation of the admissibility level of making a decision in extreme situations; the confidence in the necessity of taking measures taking into account the minimal impact in favor of weapons of mass destruction; the formation of the necessary individual, personal, psychological-moral, emotional-volitional qualities to apply of radiation-chemical protection means in extreme situations; the organization of independent, individual and research activities of the future officers on the formation of professional readiness for the radiation-chemical protection of troops, as a domestic security, in the educational process of Military Higher Education Institutions. On the basis of implementing the theoretical analysis results it has been defined that a significant role for the formation of the future officers’ professional readiness to apply radiation-chemical protection means is played by such components: motivation-purposeful, cognitive-gnostic, practical-productive, behavioral-effective. The motivation-purposeful component determines the interest in effective solving the professional tasks, the actualization of the training objectives and the interests of the future officers to perform their professional duties and tasks, evidence of the quality of professional readiness to apply radiation-chemical protection means. The awareness of the needs, aspirations and goals of the future officers’ readiness for professional activity serves as a criterion. The cognitive-gnostic component contributes to forming a conscious grasp of theoretical and practical knowledge, content and skills for professional activity in the process of training of the future officers. The component is characterized by the criterion – the presence of cognitive activity of the future officers to improve professional knowledge. The practical-productive component determines the compatibility of professional activity and occupational quality and relevant practical military capabilities to perform its functional duties, high level of general professional training and characterizes the criteria – development of professional skills and initiatives for the implementation of various types of professional activities. The behavioral-effective component contributes to the effectiveness of activity aimed at understanding the level of their professional capabilities and the content necessary for achieving professional goals. The leading meaningful qualities of the future officers to carry out their professional activities have been chosen as criteria. The pedagogical conditions of forming the professional readiness of the future officers to apply radiological-chemical protection means (increasing the motivation of the future officers who are engaged in obtaining professional knowledge in the process of their training to apply the radiation-chemical protection means in extreme situations; ensuring the professional orientation of the formation of the future officers’ readiness to apply radiation-chemical protection means by interactive methods; improvement of education-methodic provision of training of the future officers to apply radiation-chemical protection means in extreme situations; activation of the future officers’ independent work to perform practical activities to apply radiation-chemical protection means) have been defined and the author’s model of such process has been developed.