FORMATION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL COMPETENCIES AMONG LAW STUDENTS: SPECIFICS OF CURRICULA AND PROGRAMS

The article examines the issues of the content of work programs, curricula and the construction of the educational process in higher legal education with the aim of not only mastering basic legal knowledge by students, but also obtaining psychological and pedagogical training that is adequate to the tasks solved by a practicing lawyer. The methods used include observation, analysis, synthesis, deduction, induction, generalization. As a result, the author, in particular, comes to the following conclusions: psychological and pedagogical knowledge is included in the range of necessary competencies of a modern lawyer; attention is drawn to the insufficient amount of knowledge acquired by law students in the field of psychology and pedagogy and to the imbalance of disciplines offered for study that carry psychological and pedagogical competencies; attention is drawn to the fact that among the legal disciplines, criminology has the greatest psychological and pedagogical component; the discipline «Professional Ethics» should be taught at least not earlier than the 3rd year of university, when students already have relatively formed general ideas about their future profession; in the thematic plan of the discipline «Psychology and Pedagogy», it is advisable to eliminate the bias towards the field of psychology in favor of topics on pedagogy; Focusing students’ attention within the framework of a criminology course on the psychological characteristics of forensic activity is quite justified, but in the current situation it is not enough to develop the psychological competencies required in the profession. Therefore, in the senior year of study it is necessary to introduce the discipline «Legal Psychology», which would cover the psychological problems of legal activity much more deeply. The results obtained can be applied in the process of preparing scientific papers and methodological materials on teaching pedagogy and psychology for law students, as well as in the field of professional training of university staff.

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