Nesterenko I. Modernization of the Content of Higher Pedagogical Education in Poland in the Context of European Integration

An analysis of the working out of the problem and apparatus criticus of the research is outlined. This made possible to distinguish three stages of the development issues related to teacher training in Poland, such as: stage I - searching (1990 - 1999 years) - the development of new concepts, models and ideas in the pedagogical education; stage II - competency-standardizing (2000 - 2008) - the intensification of studies aimed at teacher training content; stage III - adaptating (2009 - 2014 years) - continuing to investigate the content of higher education in Poland in the context of the newly formed standards for pedagogical education. The tendencies of higher education content of modernization have been determined according to the characteristic of a number of the European Commission and Council of Europe documents: europeanization of educational content, the introduction of multicultural component in the curricula, internationalization of higher pedagogical education, interdisciplinarity of educational material, flexibility in the choice of student's educational trajectory and so on. It is shown that there are three most common models of teacher training in the developed European countries: parallel, integrated and consecutive. The parallel model provides three or four year program in which academic subjects are accompanied by the pedagogical subjects. The use of an integrated model of teacher training provides studying with the relation to specific themes and integrating theory with practice. Consecutive model provides studying general and special subjects - the first stage of study, pedagogical training and practice - the second, final stage. The legal and regulatory basis of the modernization of higher pedagogical education in Poland has been characterized, changes and modifications that have taken place in higher pedagogical education have been outlined. The key factor in the modernization of higher education in Poland is "Law of Higher Education", which was signed on 18 March 2011. The program reform is focused on convergence and agreement with European requirements, modernization and quality training of future teachers in the EU. The basic stages of creating and implementing the Polish Qualifications Framework and the peculiarities of the development of training programs based on its functioning have been defined. Stages of creating the Polish Qualifications Framework are: "experimental" - processing experimental model of PQF; "consultation" - consultation of the final model PQF, the institutional implementation of PQF; "final" - the methods of Polish Qualifications Framework, referred to the European framework. The scientific analysis of the problems of modernization of higher pedagogical education content in Poland has been shown, the basic teacher training standards and the years of their creation have been defined. The analysis of the current standard of teacher training in Poland made it possible to detect that the teacher training is modular in nature and connected with the educational qualification levels. The first module contains subjects related to a specific area of study (speciality) such as: history, mathematics, biology or pre-school education. The second module is associated with psychological and pedagogical training, which is carried out taking into account the different stages of education. Also it was found out that in addition to the three major modules, there also exist two additional modules. The strategic planning experience of modernization of higher pedagogical education content in Poland at legislative, semantic, organizational, administrative and practical levels has been summarized and possibilities of its implementation in Ukraine have been defined. The comparative analysis of documents that determine the prospects of further modernization of higher pedagogical education content revealed the democratic nature of Polish strategies and orientation of Ukrainian documents on vertical integration.