DIGITAL TWIN OF THE POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION INSTITUTION AS AN ECOSYSTEM OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

The article highlights new views on the possibilities of teachers’ professional development in postgraduate education system, due to the transition from learning management systems (LMS) to the next generation digital learning environment (NGDLE) as an ecosystem of digital tools to support the activities of subjects of the educational process. For the first time, the authors have revealed the signs of environmental friendliness of the NGDLE, have characterized it as an open, stable, safe and comfortable system for subjects of the educational process, providing information exchange between them, as well as between them and the world around them. Such digital ecosystems are created as digital twins of the real postgraduate education institutions for the efficient lifelong learning and teachers’ professional development. The practical implementation of these new generation concepts has been presented on the example of the Ukrainian Open University of Postgraduate Education, designed to organize and support non-formal postgraduate education. It has become a complex of digital solutions aimed at the implementation of EdTech with a priority in the successful functioning of virtual chairs, conducting the educational process (formal/non-formal education), professional development of students and teachers, attracting people from different regions of the country to training and teaching, highlighting innovative educational practice, etc.

ORGANIZATION OF POSTGRADUATE TRAINING OF CIRCULAR ECONOMY SPECIALISTS IN THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND (ON THE EXAMPLE OF SILESIAN POLYTECHNICS)

The article is devoted to the analysis of the organization and content of postgraduate training of specialists in circular economics in the Republic of Poland on the example of Silesian Polytechnic. It is emphasized that the Republic of Poland is taking significant steps in the development of the circular economy and the training of specialists to implement its ideas. Based on the analysis of postgraduate education programs «Circular Economics and Cleaner Production in Practice» and «Cyclic Engineering» in the Silesian Polytechnic, the article reveals the requirements the requirements, rights and responsibilities of postgraduate students are revealed; knowledge, skills and competencies that they acquire in the process of training in circular economics programs; forms of education and the content of diplomas that students receive after training, as well as areas of possible employment. It is emphasized that in the system of postgraduate education of Silesian Polytechnic there are programs both directly from the circular economy and from certain problems that relate to the scope of such specialists and contribute to the development of a circular economy. It is proved that the training of specialists in circular economics in postgraduate studies acquires a systemic character in terms of coverage of the content of those problems that relate to the professional activities of specialists in circular economics. The indisputable value of such educational programs is to involve in their development and determine the content of training not only teachers of higher education institutions, but also public and professional societies that care for the environment, waste recycling and more. Educational programs on circular economics at Silesian Polytechnic are practice-oriented, they include consultations in circular production companies, trainings on business practice, as well as the development of an implementation project under the guidance of experts.

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ACADEMIC INTEGRITY PRINCIPLES AT THE UNIVERSITY: EXPERIENCE OF CONDUCTING EDUCOLOGICAL DEBATES

The article analyzes the experience of introducing academic integrity on the example of an intellectual educational game – a debate at the Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University. Such work has become traditional for the University residents on the basis of the educational circle «Educological Discourse» of the Research Laboratory of Educology and the Pedagogical Institute of the University. The purpose of the scientific article is to present the experience of conducting Educological debates on the introduction of academic integrity and their impact on improving the quality of higher education. The theoretical basis of the «Educological Debate» is the scientific direction of integrated research in the field of education – Educology, which is a synergy of such educational sciences as philosophy of education, history of education, educational policy, educational law, education management, economics of education, sociology of education, cultural education. These educational sciences make up the content of educational training, provide an opportunity to analyze and reveal various aspects of academic integrity. The «Educological debates» have polemical nature. The teams are able to demonstrate the main areas of work during the «Educological Debates». The principles, mechanisms of academic integrity introduction which can improve quality of education are resulted. The role of meetings in the format of an intellectual educational game is emphasized. The game serves as an impetus for awareness and desire to continue working on the creation and search for tools and mechanisms for the academic integrity introduction in the academic space. The conclusions of this work on the importance of informing students about the normative and legal, moral and ethical principles of combating plagiarism, teaching students the rules of ethical behavior in the academic environment are made. It is mentioned about the interactive teaching method of debates, which is effective for the development of both professional and general competencies of students. It helps to increase the level of critical thinking and communication skills.

ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE ACTIVITIES IN WORKING WITH PRESCHOOL CHILDREN

The development of children’s creativity is an urgent problem of modern pedagogy. The main goal of the educational system is to educate the younger generation of a creative approach to transform the world around them, active and independent thinking, to contribute the achievement of positive changes in the life of society. The formation of the child’s personality serves as a direction of the pedagogical process, which creates favorable emotional conditions for each child, ensures spiritual development and contributes to the formation of artistic and creative abilities of preschool children. The article deals with the problem of the development of children’s creativity by means of musical and theatrical art. The importance of cognition of musical art by preschool children is given. The structure of musicality and the ways of its research are revealed. It is noted that the child develops in the process of musical activity under the influence of the values of musical art, communication between music and adults. It was found that listening to music contributes to the development of artistic taste and the formation of value judgments. Exactly music enables the child to see the world around him in a new way because the diverse content of musical works arouses imagination, develops memory, perception, creativity, and enriches vocabulary. The article presents classification of one of the specific types of children’s activity. It is theatrical activity associated with dramatization and play, contains a creative principle and is a kind of artistic activity. Theatrical activity reveals the creative potential of the child, fosters a creative personality, teaches the child to notice interesting ideas in the world around him and to impersonate them, to create his own artistic image. It is noted that theatrical-play activity contributes to the child’s study of human feelings, fosters will, develops dreams, ideas, initiative of speech, creates a positive attitude, relieves stress, teaches how to solve conflict situations due to play. These types of art education’s activities in preschool age form the personality of the child, develop his creative abilities, direct the child’s manifestations to evaluative and control actions intuitively.

KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AS A FACTOR OF HIGHER EDUCATION QUALITY ASSURANCE AT UNIVERSITIES: FOREIGN EXPERIENCE

Today in a rapidly changing competitive environment each university faces the need to constantly transform the knowledge and information management system, to respond quickly, to predict and to apply new forms of change management that determine managerial innovations and their efficiency. Conceptual approaches and practical experience of the knowledge and information management system formation and functioning at a modern university have been studied in the article. The purpose of the article is to highlight the theoretical foundations of the knowledge management system formation and to compare the experience in organizing the process of knowledge and information management at leading foreign higher educational institutions. Based on the analysis of the models and the practical implementation of knowledge and information management, the author's vision of important components in the knowledge management system at modern educational institutions has been suggested. Taking into account the active use of the latest information and communication technologies in higher education systems of the majority of the world’s countries, the importance of their application in the educational activities of participants in the educational process and in managerial activities of the administrative staff at universities has been stressed. This will optimize knowledge and information management at universities and will contribute to improving higher education quality, creating a competitive advantage in the market of educational services. The practical importance of knowledge and information management at university lies in the fact that the transfer of accumulated knowledge is aimed at the formation of competitive specialists, and in the fact that generation of new knowledge multiplies intellectual capital, provides competitive advantages and increases the competitiveness of the economy and society of any country.

EDUCATIONAL PROJECT AS A MEANS OF FORMING OF FUTURE SPECIALISTS’ PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE: A PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT

The article highlights the actual problem of the dependence of the psychological component of the professional competence of future specialists on the use of an educational project in the educational process. The purpose of the article is to study the features of the influence of the use of an educational project in the educational activities of a higher educational institution on the psychological component of the professional competence of future specialists. The content and structure of the psychological component of the professional competence of future specialists have been determined, which is considered as a complex of characteristics of future specialists, contains psychological knowledge, skills, motivational, emotional processes, personal properties that help to carry out professional activities, self-improvement, and consists of motivational, emotional, activity, personal, cognitive components. The experience of the formation of the psychological component of the professional competence of future specialists with the help of an educational project introduced into the educational process of the Institute of Philology of Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University is characterized. Among the research tools were used: diagnostic methods for studying the components, indicators of the psychological component of the professional competence of future specialists, the experimental method, the comparison method, and correlation analysis. The relevance of the topic is confirmed by the results of a survey of future specialists who underwent diagnostics on the problems of studying the level of the psychological component of professional competence for use in the educational process of an educational project and after. The experiment involved 227 future specialists in the specialty «035 Philology». Through experimental activities, the features of the application of the educational project in the educational process of the institution have been determined. It was revealed that the level of the psychological component of professional competence before the implementation of the educational project was lower than the level of the studied phenomenon after the application of the project in the educational process. The results of the analysis showed that the process of creating and implementing an educational project by future specialists affects the formation of the psychological component of students’ professional competence.

THE PROBLEM OF PERSONALIZATION AND PERSONIFICATION OF PROFESSIONAL TRAINING AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS: THEORETICAL ASPECT

Professional training in the context of reforming the education sector acquires new aspects and forms of implementation of educational programs, taking into account the personality-oriented trajectory of individual professional growth of each subject of the educational process. The solution of the problem is relevant nowadays: what is important in the process of personal and professional development – personalization or personification of the educational process? The article highlights the features of personalization and personification of professional training, reveals and clarifies their essence, provides an analysis of scientific publications on this issue; the need to introduce a personalized approach, which is an important means of achieving this goal. Theoretical bases of personalization and personification of professional training, features of the organization of educational activity covering cognitive, informational, scientific-innovative, social, administrative spheres are characterized. It is proved that important conditions for personalization of the educational process in higher education institutions are the cultural impulse in the idea of democratization and construction of society and man, the tradition of socio-humanitarian thought, individualization of education and so on.

FORMATION OF PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE IN FUTURE TEACHERS

The relevance of the stated research topic is determined by the urgent importance of the formation of professional competencies of future teachers in the process of their education in higher pedagogical education, as a factor that determines the success of their further professional activities. The aim of the article is to study the peculiarities of the formation of professional competencies of future teachers and to determine the main criteria that influence this process. At the same time, the authors took into account both the stage of students’ education in universities and their pedagogical practice in schools. The leading methodological approach in this research work is a combination of methods of systematic analysis of the process of formation of competence of the future teacher at the stage of his education in higher education, with analytical study of prospects for professional competence of future teachers in the process of direct entry into the profession and gradual mastery. pedagogical skills. The results of this research clearly demonstrate the importance of forming professional competence in future teachers at the stage of their education in higher education, in terms of understanding the basics of the teaching profession and creating future teachers the right level of motivation to perform their professional duties in the future. The results and conclusions of this research are of great practical importance for future teachers who learn the basics of professional skills at the stage of higher education, as well as for employees of the education system interested in improving their own professional competencies.

ORGANIZATION OF FUTURE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS’ PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE WITHIN THE OPTIONAL BLOCK «FOREIGN LANGUAGE»

The article is devoted to the issue of organizing the future primary school teachers’ professional practice within the pedagogical specialty 013 «Primary education» the first (bachelor’s) level of higher education in the content of the optional block «Foreign Language». In the process of the work, the native and foreign special literature on the research problem was analyzed. The normative legal documents and reports on the issues of the primary school teacher training, in particular its practical professional component, in the leading European countries were taken into account. To achieve the goal, a set of scientific methods was used: theoretical ones – studying the state of the investigated problem, determining the essence of future primary school teachers’ professional practice; empirical methods: questionnaires, interviews; pedagogical observations. It was found that the main purpose of professional practice of future primary school teachers within the optional block «Foreign Language» is the formation of their practical methodological competence through the implementation of theoretical knowledge and skills in foreign language teaching methods at primary school, modern technologies and innovative teaching tools. When organizing this type of practice, it is necessary to take into account the following tasks for the development of future teachers’ skills: to use teaching methods, technologies and tools of foreign language teaching at primary school in accordance with the practical purpose of the lesson; to plan a foreign language lesson methodically correct; to select, analyze and effectively apply modern technologies and innovative means of teaching a foreign language in accordance with the practical purpose of the lesson; to develop lifelong learning skills; to develop the ability of future teachers to plan a foreign language lesson and to control the formation level of foreign language knowledge, skills and abilities of primary school pupils. It is proved that the result of effective organization of professional practice within the optional block «Foreign Language» is the formation of future teachers’ professional competencies: the ability to organize foreign language teaching at primary school with focus on modern methodological approaches and leading pedagogical experience; ability to communicate in a foreign language in an oral and writing forms within a certain foreign language topic; ability to use a foreign language in various situations of social, educational and professional communication.

METHODOLOGY OF A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE TENDENCIES IN PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF SPECIALISTS IN CIRCULAR ECONOMY IN SOME EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

The article reveals the methodology of a comparative study of the tendencies in professional training of specialists in circular economy in some European countries. Since gaining independence by Ukraine, pedagogical research has intensified through studying the experience of the development of education in the world’s leading countries and, in particular, in the countries of the European Union, in order to borrow the best experience for Ukraine, taking into account our mentality, history, cultural and educational traditions. Such a branch of pedagogical science as comparative pedagogy and, in particular, comparative professional pedagogy, has started developing actively. When studying the tendencies of specialists’ professional training in circular economy in the Republic of Finland, the Republic of Poland and Ukraine, understanding of the methodology as a doctrine of organization of activities has been suggested for usage (A. Novikov, D. Novikov). The organization of scientific research in the problem field of comparative pedagogy has been revealed through: the proof of the countries’ equivalence in the study of the phenomenon chosen for the research; determination of the stages of conducting a comparative study; formulation of the research concept and substantiation of the research criteria. It has been shown that for conducting interdisciplinary comparative research it is important to apply a five-level methodology (levels: philosophical and worldview, general scientific, specific scientific (disciplinary), interdisciplinary, technological) and to use scientific approaches which reflect the methodological basis for achieving the research goal and the intermediate goals.