INNOVATIVE ASPECTS OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PEDAGOGICAL SUPPORT OF POLICE PEACEKEEPERS’ EDUCATION

Abstract

The article reveals a problem of implementation of pedagogical support for the use of police officers to participate in UN peacekeeping missions. The educational process is held with candidates in training and is implemented in educational centers around the world within the framework of the “UN Police Training Program (Standard)”. The above-mentioned process pedagogically and technologically maintained by specially trained teachers using modern pedagogical tools. The authors pay attention to the fact that the process consists of a combination of traditionally established and innovative forms and methods, technologies of educational practice. It is proved that the innovative nature of police training is pedagogically ensured by using of pedagogical tools in the format of active and interactive teaching methods: business game, case method, coaching, as well as the means needed for their application. The article presents the methodological and theoretical foundations of the problem under study, the connection of innovative teaching methods with the studied educational content in the process of training police peacekeepers. The article reflects the specifics of the content of education and the use of teaching methods in the education of police officers for international peacekeeping in modern conditions. The work reveals the historical and pedagogical conditionality and essential characteristics of innovative aspects of the implementation of modern teaching methods in the pedagogical provision of police education for peacekeeping missions.