CONCEPTUAL PARADIGMSFOR UPDATING TEACHING PROCESS IN HIGHEREDUCATION

INTRODUCTION The problem of changing pedagogical views and concepts for the development of higher education, its impact on the training of highly skilled professionals, on the social progress of Ukrainian society is very important in the 21st century, when humanity is characterized by great transformations in different spheres of life, education and pedagogy. Traditional pedagogical concepts can no longer succeed in any social progress, including educational. Each historical epoch has its criteria for the effectiveness of the pedagogical influence on the professional training of highly educated and competitive professionals, which indicates the inexhaustibility and eternal multidimensionality of this problem, objectivization of the constant need for its scientific research. The present society and the world can be characterized by the words of the Australian scientist P. Kalynovskyi as material enrichment in the impoverishment of the spirit, is explained by the disadvantages of conceptual approaches to the development and upbringing of man. A well-known philosopher D. Krishnamurti clarified, “Society was created by me and you, by our own interrelations. Substantial changes are made through self-knowledge, and not because of a blind belief” 1 . The ecological, political and economic crisis, the problem of the worldwide survival require mankind unity to make all-planetary way of life and existence possible; we are talking about world ethics and responsibility of peoples and every person for certain global decisions. The time of synthesis, the unity of objective and subjective thinking and conceptual approaches to the life of man and society are coming. Such researchers as A. Bezant, O. Blavatska, A. Daley, D. Krishnamurti, B. Lamborgh, O. Reiser stand for the restoring of culture and spiritual unity of mankind, harmonising social and personal life, helping a person