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Abstract

The article highlights the essence and structure of the concept of "information competence of future specialists in navigation and ship handling". It is proved that information competence of a specialist in navigation and ship handling involves the ability to work with large volumes of information to solve complex problems of professional activity and is an important factor in the success of professional activity. Taking into account the scientific works on the formation of information competence and peculiarities of the professional activity of a specialist in navigation and ship handling their information competence can be defined as an integrative personal quality, encompassing motivation for information activity, conscious attitude and interest in navigational information, knowledge of the types of information activities of a navigator, assignment and composition of the navigation information system, the ability to search for necessary information, understand information flows and communications, make optimal use of all navigational data, to carry out information and analytical processing of information relating to ship handling systems, navigation information resources and information security systems. The components of information competence of a specialist in navigation and ship handling service are motivational-personal, information-cognitive and activity-operational. Motivational and personal component concerns motivation to information activity, conscious attitude and interest in navigation information, readiness to work with different types of navigation information and to constantly improve the level of information competence. The information-cognitive component of information competence of a navigation and ship handling specialist covers the knowledge of types of information activities of a navigator, assignment and composition of navigation information system, formalized methods of analytical-synthetic information processing, peculiarities of various objects analysis, work with electronic format of information representation, information on methods and algorithms of electronic databases and data banks creation, distribution and acquisition of information in a group. The activity-operational component of information competence of future navigation and ship handling specialists concerns the most important abilities and skills of working with information, i.e. the ability of a navigator to perform information-analytical processing of information related to ship handling systems, management of navigation information resources, information security systems. Key words: information competence, cadet, navigation and ship handling specialist, motivational-personal, information-cognitive and activity-operational components.