ВПЛИВ ПРАВОВОГО РЕГУЛЮВАННЯ СУСПІЛЬНИХ ВІДНОСИН НА ФОРМУВАННЯ ПРАВОВОЇ КОМПЕТЕНТНОСТІ ФАХІВЦІВ ПРИ ОТРИМАННІ ВИЩОЇ ОСВІТИ

Today, in the field of education, there is a process of forming a new type of personality - a “legal conscious citizen”, which is characterized by a high level of legal competence and legal culture. The modernization of higher education has been of special importance. In this regard, the main direction of transformations is the development of the current legislation, legal institutions, human rights, rights and responsibilities of a citizen and the practice of their implementation. The article describes the legal competence of specialists’ students in obtaining higher education. An analysis of the definitions of “competence” and “legal competence”, their structural components was carried out. The article analyzes modern psychological and pedagogical literature. They illustrated that legal competence consists of legal readiness and practical ability to perform professional activities and make professional decisions. The article considers the content of certain types of competencies, defines the essence of the concept of legal competence, lists the key competencies, their structure and features of formation in the process of professional training; the content of the legal culture of the individual and the mechanism of formation of legal competence of the future specialist is determined. In the article, based on the analysis of scientific literature, the essence and structure of the legal competence of a specialist are considered. Motivational, cognitive, activity and personal components of the formation of legal competence of the future specialist are revealed. The competence of specialists unites personal and professional aspects while obtaining higher education, without excluding the impact of legal regulation of social relations as a key determinant of socio-political development of any state. The author determined that in modern studies on the essence and structure of legal competence in the professional education of students, under the notion of legal competence understand the integrative professional-personality characteristics of the subject of professional activity, which includes theoretical and legal readiness and practical ability to perform professional activities and solutions. In the structure of legal competence, according to the author, the main components are distinguished: motivational, cognitive, activity, and can also be isolated reflexive and evaluation and acneological components