Challenges and prospects of teacher training in Ukraine: analysis of historical facts

Abstract

Careful analysis and thorough generalization of the experience of preparing future teachers is the key to successful pedagogical education in Ukraine in the post-war period, which the country is going through today. The most intense, in terms of normative resolutions and reorganizations, is the beginning of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries, which are marked by unique challenges which Ukraine faced with: defending its national identity during the formation of the union and after its collapse during the formation of independence. These events had a strong impact on the educational system of the country, especially the pedagogical one. When writing the article, historical and pedagogical research methods were used to identify factors in the formation of pedagogical education in the periods under study; a comparative method with the aim of comparing the events of the early XX and early XXI centuries for the qualitative construction of the prospects for higher pedagogical education in Ukraine in the war and post-war period; prognostic method as a way to identify progressive directions in the organization of higher pedagogical education in the near future. The development strategy of pedagogical education in Ukraine in the post-war period includes the following: replenishment of the network of pedagogical universities, development of a strategy for their development; strict selection of applicants for pedagogical HEIs; encouragement and stimulation by the state of stakeholders of graduates of pedagogical universities; improvement of curricula, updating the scientific content of educational and professional training programs for future teachers; stabilization of the system of training pedagogical personnel in accordance with the requests of educational institutions that provide graduates of pedagogical HEIs with jobs; increasing the component of practical training of future teachers.