SCIENTIFIC APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF THE PROBLEM OF FORMING THE READINESS OF FUTURE LAWYERS FOR PROFESSIONAL SELF-DEVELOPMENT BY MEANS OF INFORMAL EDUCATION

Abstract

The content of the article represents an analytical study of the scientific and theoretical provisions of higher legal education. System analysis allowed us to conclude that to solve the problem of forming the readiness of a future lawyer for self-educational activity in the process of professional training by means of informal education, it is most appropriate to use the provisions of interdisciplinary, systemic, personally oriented, axiological, competency-based, acmeological, activity-based, technological scientific approaches. The readiness for professional self-development of a future lawyer is a purposeful process of increasing the level of his professional competence and the development of personal professionally significant qualities, taking into account the social requirements and conditions of professional activity and his own development program. Self-educational activity involves the self-organization of students, a personal and developmental space in which the content of legal education is mastered and accepted, the ability to identify a legal problem and solve it on the basis of the principles of law is acquired, the ability to apply modern legal doctrines, values and principles of the functioning of the national legal system is formed. Indicators of the formed readiness for professional self-development of a lawyer are: personal reflection, general and special professional competencies, ability to self-understanding, formed value of self-development, constant striving for one’s own self-actualization, motivation to improve professional activity, ability to self-realization, general and organizational skills, communication skills.
Informal education, in our opinion, is now a powerful factor in the personal and professional self-development of a specialist, a sign of scientific and technological progress, which requires constant mastery of the latest technologies based on innovative knowledge; this is a requirement of the information society, the main feature of which is constant updating of knowledge. Features of the organization of informal education, its flexibility make it possible to solve a wide variety of educational tasks: problems of professional training of adults, creation of a democratic society, education of a citizen.