PERSON-CENTERED STRATEGIES FOR EDUCATING POLICE OFFICERS
The article presents the results of a theoretical and empirical study of pedagogical strategies for educating police officers. A target model of police educating is proposed, including personal, professional and social competencies. The special role of personal competencies and their systemically important core - forming core - the personal position of a police officer-in ensuring his effective professional and official activity is emphasized. Through the concept of «the situation of personal development», the interrelation of personal and environmental factors in the development of personal competencies of a police officer is revealed. From the standpoint of a person-centered approach in pedagogy, four types of personality development situations are characterized (adaptation of the individual to the educational environment; independent activity in the educational environment; formation of a personal position in the educational environment; change of the educational environment and self-change) and the corresponding pedagogical strategies for educating police officers (adapting, variative, dialogic, creative). The results of a survey of students of the Academy of Management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for choosing a suitable educating strategy are presented.