Mykhailov V. The System of Professional Development of Civil Security Specialists in Postgraduate Education

In the thesis, a holistic analysis of the system of advanced training of civil security specialists in postgraduate education was carried out. The specifics of improving the qualifications of these specialists in view of the specific nature of their professional activity, were revealed. The author’s concept of advanced training of civil security specialists in postgraduate education was theoretically substantiated and developed. The approaches and principles that became the methodological basis of the research were highlighted. An invariant model of the professional competence of civil security specialists with taking into account the multifaceted nature of their professional activity, was designed. The components of professional activity (cognitive, activity, personal-value) were distinguished as well as the criteria (content-semantic, organizational-activity, personal) and their indicators, on the basis of which the levels of professional competence of civil security specialists were determined (low, medium, high). The system of advanced training of civil security specialists in postgraduate education was developed and theoretically substantiated as a set of interrelated and mutually determined structural blocks (target, theoretical-methodological, semantic, organizational-active, diagnostic-resultative). Its effectiveness was varified experimentally.