PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE FORMATION OF THE CIVIL DEFENSE SERVICE SPECIALISTS IN THE PRIMARY PREPARATION SYSTEM

The article highlights the relevance of given issue, which is caused by systematic practice analysis of the primary system vocational training of specialists in the civil defense service, trends in the development of fire and technical education, researches of domestic and foreign scientists and own experience in teaching practice. The directions of psychological and pedagogical sources in which scientists investigated a problem of professional competence formation of specialists of the civil service protection are given. The results of the researches analysis on the questions of the competent approach to the training of qualified specialists are presented, which proved that there is no unambiguous definition of the professional competence concept. The author's interpretation of the concept "competence of a civil defense specialist" are given as the integrated characteristic of the expert identity, reflecting the formation level of professional knowledge, abilities, qualities and practical experience allowing him to carry out successfully the professional activity directed to preservation of  life and human health, protection of natural territories and objects in the conditions of the fires emergence, technogenic and natural character emergency situations. The structural components of professional competence of specialists of the civil defense are presented in the article, to which are carried: motivational and valuable, cognitive and operational, reflexive and estimated. Formation levels of specialists’ professional competence of civil service defense are determined, namely: high, sufficient and elementary. The prospects of further development of the problem improvement of scientific and methodical ensuring process of professional formation competence of civil defense service specialists are defined.