Andragogical Approach and Problems of Its Application in Professional Education

Abstract

It is shown that professional education is received by adults with psychological and social maturity, life and professional experience, therefore, in the process of their training; an andragogical approach should be applied. The basic principles of the andragogical approach (independent learning, joint activities, reliance on the student's experience, and an individual approach to learning) have been determined, which allow purposefully and effectively apply this approach in vocational education based on the methods, techniques and means of teaching adults that correspond to the selected principles. It was revealed that the majority of university teachers do not use or rarely use the andragogical approach in their professional activities, and to solve this problem, advanced training courses, classes of methodological associations of teachers are needed, which will purposefully study the application of the andragogical approach in vocational education.