COMPETITIVE COMPETENCE AS A FACTOR OF PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENTS

Abstract

Intellectual competitions have firmly entered modern educational practices, which leads to close attention to them within the framework of a competence approach. Modern society is characterized by a competitive nature of relationships, the nature of which lies both in the properties of the individual and is determined by the struggle for resources. The relevance of the research is refracted in the need for a conscious and healthy attitude to competitive events as part of the educational process in national education. The article examines the structure of competitive competence. The term itself is first introduced into the scientific discourse of a pedagogical orientation, which constitutes the scientific novelty of the presented research. The objective is to justify the presence of three components (knowledge, skills, qualities) that are formed and developed by means of the Olympiad movement. Theoretical methods are used, i.e. analysis of scientific literature, modeling. Empirical methods include semi-structured interviews with diploma winners of student Olympiads (10 informants) and mentors (7 informants), representatives of MGIMO of the Russian Foreign Ministry. Theoretical significance is refracted in the introduction of a new term in pedagogical science and the possibility of conducting further qualimetric studies aimed at increasing the efficiency of the domestic competitive movement.