PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF FUTURE NAVAL OFFICERS THROUGH THE PRISM OF LEGISLATIVE AND REGULATORY DOCUMENTS

Abstract

The article outlines the main provisions of legislative documents in higher education, professional military education, and introductory provisions of military documents (strategies, concepts) regarding the professional competencies of future naval officers, mainly information and digital as an integral component in wartime. The study of legislative documents gave grounds to define "professional military education in education" as a specialized military education, which is obtained under educational programs at the appropriate levels of military education to improve the professional status of an army specialist and acquire professional competencies that ensure the performance of service (combat) functions (Law of Ukraine "On education"). The features of the term " institution of higher maritime education," as well as the features of the development of the system of naval education, which, according to the Maritime Doctrine of Ukraine for the period up to 2035 (2009) and other documents, should be oriented towards European standards, are shown. The documents identify several problems that hinder the development of higher education under martial law and ways to solve them, considering the content of military education and training of the practical component of the JFO experience. The main provisions of military documents (strategies, programs) on the critical competencies of future naval officers, particularly knowledge of the English language, socio-communicative, and information-digital competence, are outlined. An officer's information and digital competence should consider information literacy, communication and collaboration ability, media literacy, digital content creation (including programming), security (including digital wellbeing and cybersecurity-related competencies), and intellectual property related to problem-solving and critical thinking.