Socio-legal competence forming model for future qualified workers in VET schools

Abstract

This article discusses the skilled workers’ social and legal competence content model in vocational schools. It is proved that the model should include components of directly effect on efficiency of a unit. The structure components of the model are: trust, organizational and substantive, operational and active, effective analytical units. The trust unit determines model’s strategy. The organizational one reveals substantial methodological approaches (humanistic, student-oriented, context, activity, competence) and principles (scientific, systematic and consistency, democracy, humanity, the relationship of theory and practice). The operational and activity components, characterized by the use of steps, forms, methods and means of educational and extracurricular activities, aimed to develop legal, communicative, behavioral knowledge, skills and experience of future skilled workers and reveal the methodology of their socio-legal competence in the system of training and extracurricular work in VET. The stages methods constitute motivational, cognitive, action-reflective components. The analytic-effective unit is intended to diagnose of socio-legal expertise at all stages of offered components (motivational, cognitive, action-reflective) and defined criteria and indicators, values and motivation (motivation training, social settings); cognitive (legal, social knowledge); communication (possession skills of communication strategies and tactics); behavioral (opposition to the conflict, socio-legal activity, group work).