Към професионализацията на образованието за възрастни в Украйна
Towards professionalization of adult education in Ukraine

Summary/Abstract: The paper highlights the general state of adult education in Ukraine, reviews the current normative and legal documents that are tangible to the industry functioning. The positive tendency of the state policy creation in the field of adult education was distinguished. The progressive role of the new Law in Ukraine “On Education” in 2017 was emphasized, in which the adults’ education status as an independent branch of education was first legally determined. The article mentions the work started on the creation of a special sectoral law on adult education. The problem urgency about the adults personnel training was substantiated, it was stated there is no special training of such professionals in Ukraine and in fact there is no common name for such profession (Ukrainian researchers use different concepts e.g. specialist for adult education, specialist in the area of adult education, adult educator, andragog; practitioners use a facilitator, consultant, coach, coach-manager). The attention is focused on specific activities that take place on the way to the adult education professionalization. The joint Ukrainian-German project “On the way to the introduction of the scientific branch “Adult Education and Postgraduate Education in Ukraine” content is revealed. The concept development of specialization “Adult education and postgraduate education” in higher educational institutions of Ukraine” is carried out in 2017-2018 by scientists from the Institute of Pedagogical Education and Adult Education of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, and the University of Augsburg (Germany). The training of specialists for adult education in the higher educational institution started in the framework of the project was announced. The importance of studying and analyzing the European practice of adult education professionalization for the purpose of training the relevant personnel in Ukraine is proved.

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