UkrainianProfessional Education

Abstract

The article provides a comparative analysis of preschool educator training for professional activity in foreign education systems. It characterizes higher pedagogical education and innovative tendencies in foreign countries. An innovative aspect of preschool teacher training is singled out in the course the analysis of preschool educator training systems abroad:maximum continuity, perspective, and continuity of educational programs of various degrees, their mutual integration, which guarantees the continuation of education. The future pedagogue training is viewed through wide use of such innovative methods as discussions, heuristic conversation, «aquarium,» the method of synectics, didactic games, etc. The results of the analysis of innovative methods used abroad during the preschool specialist training demonstrate the uniformity of its key criteria, namely conceptuality, consistency, manageability, effectiveness, and reproducibility. The research emphasizes that in the aspect of integration into the European educational system abroad, future preschool specialist training acquires the features of knowledge generalization and universalization, curriculum diversification, disciplines courses integration, standardization and unification of education content, and appraisal of students’ educational achievements, etc. Considering these principal statements, the process of Ukrainian pedagogical educational development can be projected saving organizational forms and models that were shaped historically, taking into account European and world tendencies. Conclusions regarding organization tendencies of future preschool teacher training in the world countries allow focus on those aspects that can be determined as innovative ones for the modern domestic system of preschool teacher training

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