CONCEPT OF DEVELOPING PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE OF FUTURE PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHERS IN THE REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL SPACE

Abstract

The article presents a theoretical and methodological substantiation of the concept of developing professional competence of future physical education teachers in the regional educational space. The relevance of the study is determined by the need to update the foundations of teacher education in physical culture under increasing requirements for practice-oriented training, network interaction among educational actors and the consideration of regional specificity. The objective of the study is to substantiate the author’s understanding of the concept and to reveal its structure, methodological foundations and mechanism of implementation. The object of the research is the process of professional training of future physical education teachers in higher education. The methodological framework includes competence-based, systemic, contextual, personality-development, environmental and integrative approaches. The study uses theoretical analysis, synthesis, comparison of scientific positions, pedagogical design and modeling, as well as diagnostic procedures at the ascertaining stage. The paper analyses how the notion of concept is interpreted in pedagogical science and what conceptual lines of professional competence development were formed in the works of different authors from the 1990s to the 2020s. The results of the ascertaining stage, presented in this version as working template calculations to be replaced with the author’s factual data, indicate the predominance of adaptive and activity-based levels in the development of the components of professional competence. This confirms the necessity of a holistic concept aimed at coordinating the value-based, cognitive, communicative and analytical lines of professional training. The scientific novelty lies in the substantiation of the concept as an independent theoretical and methodological basis for renewing the professional training of future physical education teachers in the regional educational space. The practical significance consists in the possibility of using the concept when designing educational programs, practical training, mentoring models and regional formats of interaction between the university and partner organizations.