The thesis «Development of Pedagogical Education in Greece, Italy and Spain (Late 20th – Early 21st Centuries)» scientifically substantiates the trends of pedagogical education development in Greece, Italy and Spain; outlines promising directions for the creative usage of constructive ideas from the Southern European experience; offers scientific and methodological recommendations for the creative extrapolation of constructive ideas of the pedagogical experience of Greece, Italy and Spain to modernize the Ukrainian pedagogical education system.
The scientific novelty and theoretical significance of the study was that: for the first time in Ukraine, the holistic comparative analysis of teacher education development in Greece, Italy and (late XX – early XXI century) has been carried out, namely, retrospective analysis and periodization of the historical stages of pedagogical education development in Greece, Italy and Spain in the context of European integration processes under the influence of socio-economic factors and legal reforms have done; specific features of the implementation of the competency-based approach to the organization of pedagogical education have been specified; justifiably the possibility of critical reflection and creative usage of the progressive ideas of the Southern European experience; the provisions on the theoretical and methodological foundations of pedagogical education development in Greece, Italy and Spain have been improved; the main provisions of comparative pedagogy; new facts and documents on pedagogical education development in Greece, Italy and Spain, based on Greek, Italian and Spanish educational works, have been introduced into the scientific space, contributing to the formation of the holistic view of the modernization of Ukrainian pedagogical education system in the context of European integration.
In view of the above, we have substantiated scientific and methodological recommendations for creative extrapolation of constructive ideas of pedagogical experience of Greece, Italy and Spain for the modernization of pedagogical education in Ukraine: giving priority to the problems of building a modern system of teacher education in the context of the tasks of modernization of schools of the XXI century and the development of the latest international model of teachers; implementation of comparative educational research taking into account the European trends in the development of pedagogical education as an open dynamic system and the policy of formation of the European space; the priority of disseminating the progressive pedagogical experience of Greece, Italy and Spain in the national multicultural society in the context of civil society development; meeting the educational needs of national minorities in the Ukrainian multiethnic society, taking into account the Southern European experience; updating the content of basic pedagogical education of bachelors, as well as content development, forms and methods of pedagogical training of masters as highly qualified specialists, real teachers-europeans; fundamentalization of the content of education by expanding and deepening the interdisciplinary knowledge of pedagogical specialists focused on innovative thinking in solving problem situations of scientific and practical activities, increasing the level of formation of methods of cognitive, professional, communicative and axiological activities.
The prognostic potential of the study is determined by the potential organization and implementation on its basis of further research work of applied and fundamental directions regarding the conceptual foundations of pedagogical education development in the context of European integration processes.
