Open AccessCONTENT COMPONENT OF PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF BACHELORS IN LAW AT CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES
Author(s) -
Lesia Stoliarchuk
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
vìsnik čerkasʹkogo unìversitetu. serìâ pedagogìčnì naukii/vìsnik čerkasʹkogo unìversitetu. serìâ pedagogìčnì nauki
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2524-2660
pISSN - 2076-586X
DOI - 10.31651/2524-2660-2020-4-24-30
Subject(s) - curriculum , context (archaeology) , professional development , pedagogy , political science , law , sociology , psychology , medical education , medicine , paleontology , biology
Introduction. Professional training in the field of law is a key area of higher education since the effective functioning of all spheres of public life depends on the development of legal education in the context of forming a democratic state governed by the rule of law. Canada is known for leading higher education institutions offering instructional programs in law that ensure the consistently high quality of legal training. The purpose of the article is to outline the varie- ty of instructional programs and to analyze the peculiarities of the content component in the profes- sional training of bachelors in law at the universi- ties of Canada. The methods of quantitative and qualitative analysis and synthesis of materials and develop- ments of domestic and foreign scientists, docu- ments, instructional programs and curricula of cer- tain disciplines; induction, deduction and generali- zation to identify the features of instructional pro- grams in law at Canadian universities; systemati- zation and classification in order to draw conclu- sions on the content component of the professional training of future legal specialists in Canada. Results. On the basis of the conducted research it can be concluded that the content component of the professional training of bachelors in law en- compasses the acquisition of general professional and special legal knowledge and practical skills to be acquired by undergraduates on successful com- pletion of instructional programs of training bache- lors in law, thus, providing them with personal and professional competencies and readiness for practi- cal activity according to the chosen specialty. The scientific originality of the results obtained is determined by the fact that for the first time the content peculiarities of the professional training of bachelors in the field of law at the universities of Canada have been identified, including variabilityand flexibility of instructional programs, focus on experiential learning, autonomy of universities in drafting instructional programs and curricula, di- versification and interdisciplinary nature of in- structional programmes, result-oriented training. Conclusion. The results of the study can be used to introduce Canadian experience in the uni- versity education of Ukraine, namely, in the process of professional training of bachelors in specialty 081 “Law”.