Professional Education of Future Specialists in the Coordinates of the Unity of Social, State and European Values

The article reveals the theoretical and methodological foundations of vocational education of future specialists in the context of combining public and state (national) and European values. The factors that influence the effectiveness of professional education of future specialists are determined. It is argued that professional and value-based education is a consistent, dialectical movement of applicants for professional, vocational higher and higher education towards the goal voluntarily accepted by them, and the result of this movement is the acquisition by the future specialist of a system of national and European values and ideals, the expansion of his spiritual needs and interests, socially valuable motives, enrichment of the emotional sphere, moral and aesthetic feelings, the ability to empathize, mastering applied professional skills, habits, experience, self-reflection. The system of public and state (national) values is distinguished: unity, dignity, identity, freedom and European values, of which there are more than fifteen according to the documents of the European Union, among which the fundamental ones are: freedom, responsibility, democracy, law, etc. The article substantiates the content, forms and innovative methods of educating future specialists in social, state and European values.