Military-Technical Culture of Naval Forces Specialists: Essence, Content and Structure

Abstract

The article examines the psychological-pedagogical essence, content, and structure of the military-technical culture of naval forces specialists in modern Ukrainian higher education institutions. It has been proven that the level of development of the military-technical culture of the naval forces specialists in the modern armed forces today does not meet the needs and requirements of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It has been established that in the process of professional training at a military higher education institution, interest turns into a purposeful desire to master military-professional activities. However, students’ interest in improving military-technical literacy is unstable and unsystematic. It has been proven that the military-technical culture of naval specialists is a type of professional culture that represents an integrative property of the individual, which includes a set of knowledge, skills, professionally essential qualities, and value orientations that ensure the readiness of the future officer to carry out military engineering activities. The system of formation of military-technical culture of naval specialists is based on general (awareness and activity, compatibility of the implementation of the system with the conditions of military training, connection of theory and practice, differentiation and individualization) and specific (transformation of general engineering culture into military-technical culture cadets, axiologising the content of the system, innovations, interdisciplinary integration) principles.
 Based on the study of a complex of literary sources, it has been established that military-technical culture is considered by scientists as a personal education, as a set of personality qualities, as a sum of professional engineering knowledge, abilities, and skills, and as a means of achieving results and self-development of students in educational activities. In the process of scientific research, the functions of military-technical culture (directive, translational, meaningful, developing, reflexive-evaluative) have been singled out; components of military-technical culture (value-motivational, cognitive and activity-communicative) and logical levels of their formation (algorithmic, reproductive, reconstructive and creative).