CURRENT PROBLEMS IN VOCATIONAL TRAINING OF FUTURE MARITIME TRANSPORT SPECIALISTS: A METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH

The article reveals the essence of the work of a maritime specialist in the conditions of a modern automated vessel, which requires him to be systematic in the knowledge and skills he has acquired, as well as to have developed intellectual competence, which is an integral part of marine engineering practice. It is determined that such competence includes a significant amount of professional knowledge, flexibility of thinking, speed in decision-making, and updating of the information received. It is possible to ensure such a level of formation of the leading characteristics of professional competence of future specialists only if the following innovative methodological approaches are introduced into the educational process: interdisciplinary connection, multi-vector, multifunctionality, multi-component, multi-dimensionality, subjectivity. According to the results of the study on the need to reform maritime education, it is possible to assert that the professional image of a Ukrainian maritime specialists in the maritime labor market will significantly decrease if the formation of basic theoretical, graphic, technical and other knowledge is not laid as the basis for cognitive skills, which are subsequently isolated and transformed into an active, active position of the specialist. The sequence of formation of the competence of a future maritime specialist, which provides the active basis of professional training and determines the complex of knowledge, understanding, skills, and abilities, is the main factor in the planned level of qualification.