ПІДГОТОВКА МАЙБУТНІХ ДОКТОРІВ ФІЛОСОФІЇ У ВИЩІЙ ВІЙСЬКОВІЙ ШКОЛІ: ДОСВІД, ПРОБЛЕМИ, ШЛЯХИ ВДОСКОНАЛЕННЯ

Abstract

Introduction. Implementation of the third degree of higher education, improvement of the modern theory and practice of training for the specialists of the highest qualification in the Ukrainian higher military school. Purpose is to analyse modern approaches to the training of PhD students, to discover the ways to improve doctoral educational programmes in the conditions of transformations in education. Methods. Analysis of the legal documents, draft standards of higher education, scientific sources in order to determine the status of the problem under study; generalization of the principles and approaches to the training of PhD students at the EHEA; designing a ranking system of selection for adjunct training in military higher education, integrated results of adjunct training (competencies); modelling of the programme of adjuncts’ educational preparation in the specialty 011 «Educational, pedagogical sciences». Results. The normative-legal basis of the specialists’ training in the third educational-scientific level of higher education is analysed, significant contradictions and shortcomings in the programme of the future doctors of philosophy training and the certain differences in the views of their overcoming are pointed out. The principles and approaches to the training of PhD students are generalized, the adjunctrating system for selection to the military training is designed. The necessity to adhere to the following leading provisions concerning organizing the training of the future doctors of philosophy within the EHEA has been proved: consistency of qualifications at the doctoral level; competent, interdisciplinary, developmental approaches to the creation of the educational and scientific programmes; priority of innovative research tasks, subordination of the educational component to scientific; correspondence of doctoral programmes to the actual requests and needs; flexibility, variability of doctoral programmes; the integrality of the PhD training as a researcher and lecturer. Originality. The specific examples of the logic of acquiring the integral training results of the future doctors of philosophy (communicative, research and leadership competences) that ensure the progressive formation of personal and professional qualities: knowledge - ability - experience - ways of activity - values. The author model of the programme for the adjuncts educational training in the specialty 011 Educational, pedagogical sciences is offered. Conclusion. The preparation of future PhDs at a higher military school is carried out in accordance with the European integration strategy of Ukraine, taking into account European principles and approaches. Further improvement of the educational process for doctoral programmes involves improving the quality of selection for training in adjuncture by intensifying the self-training of entrants and their complex rating, developing a system of competences, designing the educational content of the educational and scientific programme on didactic principles of consistency, continuity, perspective, unity of theory, practice and research, etc. Mechanisms for updating educational programmes, methods of internal and external evaluation of adjuncts, academic selection of candidates for Doctor of Philosophy degree require further elaboration and improvement.