THE CROSS-BORDER EDUCATIONAL SPACE OF THE UKRAINIAN DANUBE REGION: UPDATING THE COMPETENCE PARADIGM

Abstract

The European vector for the development of higher education necessitates the reproduction of the best national educational traditions, as well as the updating of the system of training of future specialists in the field of education in accordance with European educational standards. A significant difference between the changes in the transformations of the present is the increasing requirements for the professional training of future science teachers, given the multidimensional specificity of their professional activities.One way of updating the content of education and matching it with contemporary needs is competency education as a strategically significant factor in enhancing the competitiveness of future teachers. In addition, the range of competences associated with many factors is becoming more relevant today as they are indicators of future teachers’ readiness for professional activity. It is obvious that the training of a competent specialist capable of effective pedagogical activity in the conditions of the new Ukrainian school is a priority area for the professional training of future science teachers in the parameters of European standards.It is clear that a modern higher education institution cannot respond in a timely manner to the dynamics of environmental changes affecting global, national and regional levels. The most competent approach in the preparation of future educators involves the creation of a kind of environment oriented to integrate scientific and educational potential, the use of international cooperation opportunities in the creation of a single educational space. Internationalization and globalization of higher education in this perspective are the founders of state educational policy and determine the rethinking of the phenomenon of the university as a social institution, its specific role in the development of regional, national and international multicultural space.Cross-border cooperation at the higher education level is becoming a powerful conglomerate of the mutual influence of national higher education systems and a bilingual didactic component of vocational training. In terms of the issues raised, it should be noted that cross-border cooperation lays a solid foundation for realizing the competency potential of modern HEA. Thus, the removal of any barriers becomes the leitmotif of contextual analysis of the concept of competence in the dimension of cross-border updated understanding.