Postgraduate Pedagogical Education in Ukraine

Vadym Luniachek,Tetyana Varenko

doi:10.22158/uspa.v1n2p199

Abstract

<p><em>The paper outlines the history of the teaching staff’s further development in Ukraine as an independent state and as a republic within the USSR. It compares the two models of the postgraduate pedagogical education system with particular focus on the new changes brought about by the new Law of Ukraine “On Education” of 2017 ensuring diversification of postgraduate pedagogical education and allowing its development in the context of globalization trends. The paper also observes the evolution of institutions providing further training for the teaching staff and looks into the new mechanisms for its financing. It singles out the pressing problems the Ukrainian state is facing and struggling to solve.</em></p>

Highlights

1.1 Study Relevance and Problem Statement Teachers’ professional development is relevant for the national educational systems of all developed countries of the world
Ukraine, which developed as part of the USSR for a long time, inherited the postgraduate pedagogical education system of the said totalitarian state
The reform “from above” requires today theoretical substantiation and practical implementation of new models and mechanisms of educators’ professional development because they are, in their turn, directly related to the processes of pedagogical staff attestation and certification, which take place on an annual basis, but are already subject to the new regulations. 1.3 Purpose Statement This paper aims at giving scientists beyond Ukraine an insight into the development history and the current state of postgraduate pedagogical education in Ukraine

Summary

Introduction

1.1 Study Relevance and Problem Statement Teachers’ professional development is relevant for the national educational systems of all developed countries of the world. Ukraine, which developed as part of the USSR for a long time, inherited the postgraduate pedagogical education system of the said totalitarian state. Sorochan’s research is of particular interest for she singles out a number of contradictions in the preparation of administrators for their professional managerial activity in the postgraduate pedagogical education system They namely lie between: - the social form of managerial activity, the collective nature of labor conditioning the interpersonal interaction and the individual form of mastering managerial technologies by each administrator; - the objective requirements the society sets a person and the administrator’s activity and the limited conditions for development of his or her professionalism in everyday practice; - the administrator’s consciousness concentrating on the past social experience and the need for his or her orientation towards future changes in education; - the need to ensure the school’s development, which requires implementation of innovative approaches, and the personal unwillingness to innovate (Sorochan, 2005). Method The main methods utilized in preparation of this paper were analysis of the works in the history of postgraduate education in Ukraine and the systemic approach to synthesizing the collected data

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