ON THE ISSUE OF POLITICAL COMPETENCE OF STUDENTS AND THE PROSPECTS OF ITS FORMATION IN AN INTEGRATED EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

The acute issues of higher school pedagogy include problems of forming political competence in students. The development of new technologies and the digitalization of political relations take this problem to a new level. The degree of continuity and interest of Russian youth in political processes is decreasing, thereby creating political risks and threats to the security of the country. A possible option for the formation of political competence is to work with young people on the basis of higher education organizations. Purposeful work within the educational environment of the university, integrated with the educational environment of the school, creates favorable prerequisites for the formation of political competence of the younger generation. The purpose of the article is to identify current trends and prospects in the field of formation of political competence of students. The theoretical analysis of the scientific literature allows us to state a significant interest in the problem under study on the part of representatives of various sciences. Political scientists have been particularly successful in this issue. Their conclusions enrich the theoretical positions of philosophy, psychology and pedagogy, as well as the views of specialists obtained on the basis of the analysis of practical experience in the formation of political competence of different categories of citizens. This issue is being studied more actively in foreign countries, whose experience should warn against repeated mistakes in the interaction of political institutions and civil society structures. An analysis of the documents of a number of European states shows the component composition of competencies that politically active citizens should be able to implement. The main result of the article is the development of a theoretical understanding of the essence and structure of a person’s political competence. In this direction, domestic researchers have significantly succeeded, in whose works similar ideas on this issue have been noted and the component composition of political competence has been highlighted. The obtained conclusions allow to expand the basic ideas about the essence of political competence, the main ways and methods of its formation. At the same time, it is emphasized that for each agent of political socialization, these methods differ due to the tasks they perform.