CONTINUOUS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND PEDAGOGICAL WORKERS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE EUROPEAN EDUCATIONAL SPACE DEVELOPMENT
The basis of the study is the need to determine the strategic guidelines for a continuous professional development of scientific and pedagogical workers, considering the trends of training and education of the ones laid down in the basic documents of the European Union. Are defined, what effective use of mentioned opportunities and options for the development of lifelong learning can stop isolation and stagnation in the field of research, formulate the demand on quality training of researchers and cost-effective developments in the field of fundamental and applied sciences, reduce the gap between research and the implementation of its findings, integrate continuing education and science of Ukraine in the educational and research area of the European Union. For its realization it is necessary to promote the formation of a coherent system of formal, informal, and non-formal education in its vertical and horizontal network options; to develop and implement a system for validation of informal and non-formal education outcomes, to implement the principles of a competitive educational virtual environment; to develop the individual educational trajectories of professional development and self-development of specialists; to develop and implement a differentiated, multi-elective profile that is also diversified by the program profile, forms of adult education based on one's professional needs, individual needs, social and economic demands, and to actualize creative industry development. In this context, a coherent system of formal, informal and non-formal education should provide psychological and pedagogical, andragogical, informational and communicative support for the development of a specialist's creative activity. The multiple range of forms, models, technologies, and lines of professional development make it possible to prepare a competitive specialist in the market of educational services, capable to continuing self-development, self-education and self-realization through formal, informal and non-formal education ...