Heuristic methods and pedagogical conditions for their implementation in the practice of the state security competency forming
Authors: Mikulina Maryna , Ryzhov Igor 
Published: March 2024

The activity of the state in forming state security competence is the implementation of a system of means for anticipating and planning, organization, regulation, coordination, and monitoring activities of those authorized to introduce relevant competencies for the training courses of state security at different levels of the state security system. That is why the basic competencies of state security professionals are desirable, and for the managerial staff it is compulsory, firstly, they have to be able to creative and innovative in their activity, be open minded to promote new and diverse perspectives; secondly, critical thinking and problem-solving are indispensable skills, taking into account cause-effect relationships, understanding the relationships between systems and system elements; skillful, responsible thinking, which enables quick and objective determination of the problem and generate unique algorithms for solving it. In modern conditions, the center of gravity in the implementation of counterintelligence or anti-terrorist measures is shifting to the practices of social and informational counteraction and social prevention, and knowledge management requires new models of military and civil (hybrid) confrontation with new types of aggression where a significant proportion is intangible assets (socio-political, technological, informational, financial and others), which are a consequence of the effective use of intellectual capital of the state (social system). Accordingly, the role of effective management of intellectual resources is growing, since their availability and degree of development determine the ability of the national security system to innovation and progress in its development.
The overwhelming majority of social systems managers do not tend to out-of-the-box thinking, but to formalized decision algorithms and are unable to find effective solutions due to the uncertainty and variability of conditions. That is why a prerequisite for the development and effective implementation of state security is the availability of specialists who are able not only to solve closed tasks, but also to perform creative tasks. Another problem-matter is the formation of pedagogical conditions to outline their professional competencies, which gives grounds to raise the issue of the need to form acmeological fundamentals of the state security system as a technology.
The practice of using security forces shows a direct proportional dependence of the effectiveness of their operational-combat missions on the degree of readiness of the leadership and personnel. The degree of readiness is an integrated component of the status parameters, the main of which is the level of professional preparedness of the employee. The degree of readiness is an integrated component of the status parameters, the main of which is the level of professional preparedness of the employee. Therefore, the thesis that professionally trained personnel are and will be the system-forming element of the state security forces is and will be peremptory. The impact on the processes of formation of competence of state security specialists is regulatory, decisive for the ability of the system to perform key responsibilities – protection of the state from criminal encroachments.
Key words: heuristics, educational process, theory of solving inventive problems, TRIZ-pedagogy, state security, algorithm of social management, competence, terrorism.