Victoriia Filippova
Ph.D., associate professor, doctoral candidate
of the National Academy of Public Administration under the President of Ukraine
Current
state of the public policy
in the field
of teacher education in Ukraine
Public policy in the sphere of
education – the most important component of any state policy, a tool to ensure
the fundamental rights and freedoms, increase the pace of socio-economic and
scientific-technical development and humanization of society, culture growth.
Public policy generates based on the consent of the indigenous social
development goals and objectives of Education, ensures their enforcement of
concerted action by the state and society. Public policy in the sphere of
education, reflecting the national interests in education and presenting them
to the world community, at the same time takes into account the general trends
of world development.
Among the main trends of world
development, causing the significant changes in the education system include:
accelerating the pace of social development and the transition to a
postindustrial, information society, a significant expansion of intercultural
interaction, the emergence and growth of the global problems that can be solved
only through cooperation within the international community, the
democratization of society, political empowerment and social choice, the
dynamic development of the economy, increased competition, curtailment of
unskilled and low-skilled labor, the profound structural changes in employment,
defining a constant need for professional development and retraining of workers,
increase their professional mobility.
New challenges civilization
systematically lead some countries to a new «educational boom» to a wave of
deep reforms of education systems – it happens in the U.S., UK, China, Eastern
Europe, Southeast Asia and South America etc. Conducted abroad educational
reform focused on current and future needs of society, the efficient use of
resources, including education systems themselves.
Ukraine can not remain aloof from
these global trends. Patriotic education system is intended to support Ukraine’s
place among the leading countries of the world, to its international prestige
as a country that has always had a high level of culture, science and
education. This prestige must find expression not only in the public
recognition, but also in the active export of educational services. Of
particular importance in this regard is the development of fruitful cooperation
and preservation of the common educational space.
Definition of public policy
objectives in the field of education is a major target for Educational policy
based on such important principles as: the combination of interests of
individuals, society and the state in education, conservation and development
of fundamental advances in the field of education, to ensure the integrity of
various levels of education, education transformation in a process of
continuous personal development throughout their lives based on previous
education of man and his professional growth, increasing at all levels of the
educational system of the state and the role of society in the management of
the education system and in evaluating the performance of educational
institutions, conservation education in the leading role of government agencies
along with the support of private educational institutions, support community
initiatives and public institutions in the field of education [1]. Formation of
the regulatory framework in the field of education should be aimed at
identifying the legal, organizational, financial foundations of innovative
development of the national education system in the context of globalization
trends and challenges. Before pressing issue is the development and adoption of
the Law of Ukraine «On the postgraduate education», new edition of the Law of
Ukraine «On Education», «On Higher Education», «On vocational education» [2].
Regarding teacher education needs
substantial modernization of the content and structure of vocational education
in accordance with modern requirements. The system of vocational teacher
education not sufficiently oriented to both the public and the territorial
labor markets, as well as future needs of their development, which sometimes
makes it uncompetitive. To implement the requirements of modern social system
of teacher education, enhance its social role is needed, on the one hand, the
modernization of the system of teacher education, and on the other – changing relations
between the state, society and individual to teacher education. Currently,
complex and deep modernization of teacher education – should become imperative
educational policy of Ukraine, its main strategic direction.
Modernization of teacher education –
it is a political and national, public and national problem, it should not and
can not be carried out as a departmental project. The purpose of modernization
of teacher education is to provide a mechanism for sustainable development of
teacher education system, ensure that it meets the challenges of today, the
social and economic development needs of the country, needs of individuals,
society and the state. To achieve this goal, the first of the following
priority, interrelated tasks : providing government guarantees accessibility
and equal access to full vocational education to achieve a new quality of
modern vocational education, the formation of the system of vocational
education effective regulatory, organizational and economic mechanisms for
attracting and use of resources, improving social status and professionalism of
education, strengthening their state and public support, the development of
vocational education as an open public social system based on the distribution
of responsibilities between the actors of education policy and the role of all
participants in the educational process. Increased professionalism of teachers,
training and formation of the teaching corps, corresponds to the needs of
modern life – the primary task, a necessary condition for the modernization of
teacher education in Ukraine.
Development of teacher education
must go to a fruitful dialogue mode all subjects of education policy, a clear
allocation and coordination of their powers and responsibilities in this area.
Must steadily increase the participation of society in the formulation,
adoption and implementation of political, legal and administrative decisions in
education. This should be done as an appropriate legal framework and real
effective mechanisms for public participation in the development of education.
Literature
1.
Сластенин В. А. Основные тенденции развития
современной образовательной политики в Российской Федерации [Электронный
ресурс] / В.А.Сластенин. – Режим доступа: http://scientific-notes. ru/pdf/st2 .pdf
2.
Указ Президента України № 344/2013 «Про Національну стратегію розвитку
освіти в Україні на період до 2021 року» [Електронний ресурс]. – Режим доступу:
http://www.president.gov.ua/documents/15828.html