FEATHERS OF LIFELONG TEACHER EDUCATION IN SWEDEN

Abstract

Nowadays, lifelong teacher education is an important lifelong learning component is conditioned not only by the dynamics of social, scientific and technological progress, changes in the scope and nature of work, increasing leisure time, and opportunities for its rational use but also by the social role of both society and personality. Quality education is considered by the world community as a tool of socio-economic growth and cultural development. Modern pedagogical reality is characterized by a tendency to find ways to improve higher education and reform. Sweden is one of the most developed socio-economic countries in the world. And the study of the experience of this particular country should help improve the training of native teachers. Teacher education in the Scandinavian countries has its own special socio-cultural significance and contains several dimensions that characterize the individual: education as an individual condition, education as an individual opportunity; education as an individual process; education as the highest value of mankind. It should be noted that the system of modern pedagogical education in Sweden is quite flexible and meets the needs of society in the number and qualifications of teachers. Also teacher has the opportunity in a lifelong pedagogical profile development. In order to ensure the continuous professional growth of teachers in Sweden, a system for improving their qualifications has been developed, regulated at various levels. That is why in conditions of integration processes, modernization of pedagogical education of Ukraine in accordance with the provisions of the Bologna Declaration, the system of professional education of Ukraine faced new tasks, the solution of which is due to increasing the role of personality and teacher professionalism as specialists and citizens in a market economy.

Key words: teacher training; professional development; feathers, lifelong; Sweden.