THE DIGITALIZATION OF TEACHER PROFESSIONAL TRAINING IN THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND, HUNGARY AND UKRAINE: THE FORMULATION OF THE PROBLEM

The article formulates and identifies the problem of digitalization of teacher training in the Republic of Poland, Hungary and Ukraine, highlights research methods, reveals the methodological and theoretical basis of the study, identifies the source base of the study. A set of general scientific methods is used in the process of setting research issues: theoretical: analysis and synthesis in order to determine the main directions of research on the problem of digitalization of higher education; classification and generalization in order to highlight in the processes and phenomena of common features for the Republic of Poland, Hungary and Ukraine on the digital transformation of higher education; comparative analysis, identification and substantiation of trends in digitalization of higher education in the given countries; empirical: study of the legal framework for the digitalization of higher education in the Republic of Poland, Hungary and Ukraine; comparison on one basis, on several bases; description of factual information for the purpose of analytical interpretation and study of specific facts and phenomena. The leading idea of the research is determined, which is based on the position that the system of comparative analysis of the digitalization of teacher training in the Republic of Poland, Hungary and Ukraine requires a thorough monographic study of this problem in each country and substantiation of comparison criteria that determine the direction and content of research on the chosen problem in the Republic of Poland, Hungary and Ukraine.