Integrated approach to studying general and professional training subjects of future officers of rocket and artillery armament

• Main Author: Олег Миколайович Маслій
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Profi.Net.Ua Group; Department of Informatics and Cybernetics; Melitopol Bohdan Khmelnytsky State Pedagogical University 2018-12-01
• Series: Ukrainian Journal of Educational Studies and Information Technology
• Subjects: integration; professional training; future officers of rocket and artillery armament; principles; knowledge
• Online Access: http://ojs.mdpu.org.ua/index.php/itse/article/view/2486/3097

Based on the analysis of scientific research, the principles of integration of professional training of future rocket and artillery armament officers are substantiated: transferring the knowledge, using the conceptual apparatus of other subjects, convergence of the components of general scientific knowledge, combining the components, and prediction. The main factors that affect the efficiency of the integration of general and special knowledge are defined: unity and interrelation of social, professional, pedagogical, logical and legal phenomena; need for a synthesis of knowledge and skills for all kinds of training and combat tasks and situations; opportunity for officer cadets to realize their potential effectively; ability to solve professional tasks in atypical situations. Coming from the variety of objectively existing factors, the levels of complementarity are defined, as well as the didactic synthesis and the level of integrity. The integrated approach in the professional training of future rocket and artillery armament officers is in the fact that, along with the independent conditionality, military education is the link between the professional and military education, it brings together all of the knowledge, abilities, skills, norms and values in a coherent whole. In the context of the integration of knowledge for general pedagogical and didactic purposes, integrative studying is close to the developing one as it is included in almost all learning types, it significantly affects the content of education and has the theoretical and exploratory nature. Consistency of professional knowledge is found out to be provided by the development of modern educational technology and the phased formation of the professionalism of the future rocket and artillery armament officers. In the educational process, the leading activity of cadets is training, during which further formation of the personality occurs, the professional competence and necessary skills of their service activities are being formed. The main tasks of preparing cadets to their professional activities are formulated, and directions for integration of general and professional training subjects are defined.