Andragogical aspects of training competent future teachers: experience of poland, ukraine and the world

Abstract

The article is devoted to the andragogical aspects of training competent future teachers, in particular, to the role of continuous education, lifelong learning in the modern world.

It is shown that in the conditions of a radical change in the educational paradigm in the context of social ideas, values and the existence of people in general, it is education that performs a stabilizing function in society, transmits key cultural patterns in the context of the change of human generations, and also contributes to the adaptation of people to new conditions. At large, education accelerates the process of development and formation of a person as an personality, a subject of activity, self-education and self-development, thus ensuring the formation of spirituality, worldview, value orientations and moral principles in all participants in the educational process; in conditions of a certain devaluation of universal human values, the prevalence of pragmatic-utilitarian tendencies, adult education as a sphere of spiritual production plays the role of an intermediary means between culture and personality, which allows all participants in the educational process to make an adequate choice of cultural and educational values, cultural models; this contributes to the harmonization and stabilization of modern socio-cultural situation.

The historical aspect of the emergence of andragogy as a pedagogical science is outlined, which initially functioned as a component of general pedagogy and philosophy of education, and its development was closely related to the humanistic sciences (philosophical anthropology, adult psychology, ethics, sociology of culture and education, history of education and pedagogical thought), and then andragogy transforms into an independent branch of knowledge, subject area of ​comprehensive study of a person.

The importance of continuing education in the context of current civilizational challenges is emphasized. A conclusion is made about the importance of continuing education, in the process of which learning process as well as self-studying, self-education of adults take place, which builds its theoretical generalizations and normative provisions on two sources of knowledge: on the achievements of the humanities and social sciences, as well as on the research of adults in educational situations. The basic concepts of the study are analyzed, the results of the study related to the formation of competent specialists by innovative learning technologies are presented.