EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION AS A SUBJECT OF STUDY BY UKRAINIAN AND FOREIGN SCHOLARS

Abstract

World globalization processes require changes in all spheres of human life, especially in the education system. Total innovativeness becomes one of the main features of modern specialist's worldview. Therefore, the central project of the modern education is to educate an "innovative person", an individual with a high adaptive and innovative potential, with developed critical and divergent thinking, capable of non-standard solutions and active creative search. At the same time, modernization of education contributes to the emergence of new terminology and requires comprehension of innovative processes in pedagogical theory. Thus, the purpose of the article is to define the essence of the definition " educational innovation" in the studies of Ukrainian and foreign scientists, to find common and specific in the reasoning of researchers on this phenomenon. In addition, the article determines the prerequisites of the innovation process in Ukraine and the need to implement educational innovations in world practice. Summarizing the scientific views on the essence of the educational innovation defined that the research area of educational innovation are: the laws and regularities of all aspects of the educational innovation process, mechanisms of change management states of education and the relationship between past acquired teaching experience and the design of future educational innovation processes; reorganization of the educational process in particular and the impact on the development of the educational system as a whole; the process of updating the relationship of subjects of education in innovative cooperation; preparing young people for future professional innovative activities, etc. In addition, the relevance of the definition of " educational innovation" and the dynamism of the formation of this definition were established; the procedural nature of the essence, the presence of the personal factor of educational innovation and its value as a necessary component of pedagogical and social development were determined And also the article determines the main tasks of educational innovation as a science. It is proved that educational innovation, exercising direct influence on all participants of the innovation process, is a theoretical foundation for effective changes in the educational system in general