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DEVELOPMENT OF CONFLICT MANAGEMENT SKILL WITH LAW UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
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As law enforcement officers work in the system person-person they must possess the ability to stop conflicting parties’ opposition, resolve conflicts on the basis of the rule of law. So developing conflict managing skill is crucial in professional training of future law enforcement officers. The article purpose is to identify the impact of the pedagogical conditions of the development of future law specialists’ ability to resolve conflicts on the level of this skill development. Research methods were the following: general theoretical ones (analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction); general empirical ones (observation, pedagogical experiment, adapting techniques: “Tolerance Index”, “Methods of diagnostics of the communicative installation” etc.); statistic methods (criterion X2 ). An experiment was conducted on the basis of Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University (Kharkiv, Ukraine). The sample was 144 persons. Two experimental groups were created. In E1 (n = 52) the effectiveness of the pedagogical conditions (creation of a cultural and educational environment aimed at educating humanistic values of students; mastery of knowledge on conflict resolution; creation of various professional cases) was checked in the process of teaching law students and their internship. In E2 (n = 48) extracurricular educational activities were added to the above work. In control group C (n = 44), there was no mentioned purposeful activity. The research results: the number of law students with a high level of conflict management skill in group E1 +26.9%, in group E2 +41.7%, in group C +18.2%. The conclusion is about the importance of the complex application of the mentioned pedagogical conditions that may be effectively adapted for developing conflict managing skill in the professional training of other specialists.
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