СУЧАСНА СИСТЕМА ВИЩОЇ ОСВІТИ США: ОСОБЛИВОСТІ ФУНКЦІОНУВАННЯ ТА РОЗВИТКУ

• Authors: Олена Огієнко

Title variants

EN

Modern system of higher education in the USA: features of development and functioning.

• Languages of publication: UK

Abstracts

EN

The article identifies and analyzes the specific features of functioning of the US higher education system which determine its competitiveness and leading positions in the world as also outlines the possibilities of use of the American experience in the development of the higher education system in Ukraine. In order to achieve the aim we used the structural-logical and structural-functional analysis which allowed us to determine the specific features of the US higher education system; the system-structural and comparative analysis which helped to define the promising directions for the development of higher education in the United States; the scientific extrapolation method which permitted us to outline the possibilities of using the innovative potential of American experience in the process of modernization of higher education in Ukraine. It has been established that the specific features of the functioning of the higher education system in the USA are socio-economic, political, historical, socio-cultural determinants of its development; ramification of legislative support, implementation of a number of reforms that were standard-oriented, professionally oriented and market-oriented; decentralization and regionalization, financing alternatives, multilevelness and diversification of its structure, comprised of universities, colleges and specialized institutions; intensive development of research and corporate universities. It has been found out that the specific features of functioning of the US higher education system ensure its competitiveness and leadership worldwide, therefore, American experience of building the higher education system can be used in Ukrainian educational space. To perspective directions of further research we refer the study of the organizational, content and procedural foundations of master degree programs at US universities, analysis of strategies and models of research universities in the United States, determination of possibilities of using elements of innovative American experience in Ukrainian educational space.

Keywords

EN

higher education; laws and regulations; management; financing; diversification; research university; corporate university; USA

• Publisher: Sumy State Pedagogical University named after A.S. Makarenko
• Journal: Педагогічні науки: теорія, історія, інноваційні технології
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 10(74)
• Pages: 133-144

Dates

published

2017-12-25

Contributors

author

Олена Огієнко

Identifiers

DOI

10.24139/2312-5993/2017.10/131-141