Abstract

This article analyzes the motivation of higher military education in Ukraine, which proposed to consider on three stages – the choice of profession, training in military high school and professional formation after education. Based on the author’s qualitative and quantitative research strategies the authors revealed that on the first stage the main factors of the choice of occupation are soldier prestige of the profession, a guarantee of employment. A certain influence family tradition has. It is shown that on the second stage the impact of various factors forms the three groups of military students on the power of motivational components for higher military education: high, medium and low power motivation. The study showed that the military students choose such values, like health, a happy family life, good and true friends, and financial stability. On the basis of comparative analysis demonstrated that the system of values of military students is identical to the values of students, along with it, their motivation to obtain the profession is more stable than the latter. Analysis of the problems of professional development at the third stage shows the range of problems to be solved in the higher military educational institutions. Among them: the content of the curriculum, their identity to practical aspects of professional activity, the formation of subject­subject relations and others.