SOME TRENDS IN TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGES IN PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION DURING THE YEARS OF UKRAINE'S INDEPENDENCE

Abstract

The relevance of the paper lies in the society's demand for reviving and strengthening Ukrainian statehood, ensuring real sovereignty and a worthy place of Ukraine in the world community, moving to a qualitatively different form of socio-economic organization of society, creating a new economic, intellectual and spiritual elite with innovative state-oriented thinking, decentralizing managerial powers in all spheres of public life, making managerial structures more autonomous based on the distribution of managerial powers, developing partnerships between the state, the private sector ..

Aim: to reveal and describe some trends in transformational changes in professional education during the years of Ukraine's independence.

Methods: an analysis of scientific sources and regulatory documents (used to clarify some current trends in professional education); analysis, synthesis, generalization and comparison (used to identify some common and different features and establish causal relationships while studying educational phenomena of the period under study.

Results: the functioning of the professional education system during the years of independence reflects the changes in the socio-economic, political, spiritual and cultural development of society and transformational changes in the global and Ukrainian labour markets, which have affected the content of professional education, the creation of a network of educational institutions, the changes in forms of management, the amounts of funding, as well as the mechanisms of interaction with economic structures and the labour market.

Conclusions: the paper reveals the main trends in transformational changes in professional education during the years of Ukraine's independence (humanization, democratization, continuity, standardization, technologization, digitalization, economization, social partnership), describes the priorities in its development under modern socio-economic conditions related to them (the updates in its content; the optimization of the network of educational institutions; the improvement of forms of management; the increase in the level of financial, personnel and educational-and-methodical support; the introduction of new mechanisms for …