The model of formation of strategic competence of future international lawyers in the universities of France

Abstract

The article sets to analyze current approaches to modelling as a research method of pedagogical processes and phenomena that allow detecting their main components and describe their interrelation and conditions of functioning. The notion of strategic competence of a future international lawyer is considered and understood within the framework of our research as a complex, dynamic and integrative system of personal qualities and professionally relevant expertise, skills and abilities aimed at an adequate and effective choice of strategies and tactics in professional activities acquired by students during professional training. The research results of the formation process of strategic competence of future experts in the field of international law by the example of student’s of international law training at the universities of France in the form of an original formation model of the mentioned competence are presented in the article. The analysis results of scientific and pedagogical sources and regulatory documents allowed distinguishing five main interrelated blocks of the designed model: purpose-oriented containing the social demand of the society, aim and task of strategic competence formation; methodological including its components, basic principles and approaches to its formation (competence-based, systemic, activity, transverse); organizational and procedural containing forms, methods, means of forming the analyzed competence; content-based, i.e. the content of academic subjects, curriculum, knowledge, expertise, skills; control- and result-based, i.e. the criteria, indicators and levels of the well-formedness of the strategic competence of future international lawyers during their professional training at the universities of France.