Pedagogical model of the formation of professional competences of lawyers: Ukrainian reality

Rapid development of information technologies has led to the global computerization of society. As a result of this phenomenonin the field of education, the developed data processing environment, modular assembly of information systems (combination of differenttypes of architectural solutions within the same complex) were formed. Consequently, the process of knowledge accumulationfor the development of professional competence skills gradually changes the form of implementation. Well-known goals of higher educationthat are discovered in such elements as knowledge, understanding, forms of their gaining are subject to changes. The foregoingcalls for the change in the educational paradigm one of the components of which, in our opinion, should be the transition to educationalgoals of another qualitative type in the cognitive field, including the development of applied professional legal skills, development ofcritical thinking, etc. This study contains the formed algorithm of professional training of the future lawyer which provides for the productionof a model for the formation of professional competences of the lawyer as the basic element. Such a pedagogical model shallbe based on the organic unity of theoretical, practical, psychophysical training, which in turn will provide the level of professionalsocialization. The model is based on four segments: target, meaningful, didactic and evaluation and productive. The study of the processof the formation of professional competences of the lawyer using the established model has made it possible to identify shortcomingsin the content and didactic segments, which consist in overload of curricula with unnecessary disciplines of humanitarian content andlack of applied component in the educational process.