Abstract
Socio-economic changes in the late 20th century and at the beginning of the 21st century, technological and socio-cultural transformations at global and local levels had a significant impact on de-termining the role of adult education for modern Ukrainian society and outline its further development vec-tor. The need for mass professional retraining of adults to ensure socio-economic reforms, as well as the for-mation of Ukraine’s civil society, is prompted by the development of an adult continuous education flexible system to respond to the whole society’s challenges and the demands of its specific layers. The author states that Ukraine has a rich historical experience of adult education (from weekend schools, re-education schools, part-time universities, universities for workers and peasants to the creation of research institutions in the system of the National Academy of Educational Sciences, engaged in research and theoretical analysis of an-dragogy and departments of andragogy at higher education institutions). Contemporary landscape of adult education in the country has been analyzed. According to the author, the situation is ambiguous and charac-terized by both positive (awareness of the role of adult education) and negative (reduction of terms of study, commercialization of many adult education pathways, funding cutbacks) features. However, positive changes prevail: branching of goals and education fields; diversification of educational services, development of adult education flexible structures that can meet modern requirements. The system of adult education in Ukraine has been analyzed. According to structural features, it has formal and informal components. The emphasis is placed on the role of non-formal education. The author concludes that adult education in Ukraine is gaining more importance in modern society.
Highlights
Socio-economic changes that took place in the society of the end of XX - the beginning of the XXI century, combined with technological and socio-cultural transformations both at the global and local levels became the leading determinants that significantly influenced the role of adult education in the modern Ukrainian society
The rapid growth of information is due to changes in the information field of society, which leads to a mismatch between the pace of civilization development and the traditional education system
Without creating a fullfledged adult education system that takes into account the Ukrainian specificity of social, moral, regional, cultural, psychological experience, it is not possible to develop plans for restructuring society, economy, culture, and to develop a common strategy for the country's development
Summary
Socio-economic changes that took place in the society of the end of XX - the beginning of the XXI century, combined with technological and socio-cultural transformations both at the global and local levels became the leading determinants that significantly influenced the role of adult education in the modern Ukrainian society. The aim of the study is to carry out the general analysis and main conditions of modern adult education system in Ukraine. Scientific intelligence on the scientific-theoretical and scientific-methodological foundations of adult learning has become relevant. The theoretical and methodological foundations of adult education in the system of continuous education has been studied by O. Verbytskyi; andragogical comparative studies has been carried out by S. Etc.), historical and pedagogical studies on adult education has been considerated by L.
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