Training of Masters in Philology in Ukraine and Abroad: Search for Educational Strategies

• Authors: Olena Semenog
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper outlines the modernization experience of philology Master programs in Ukraine, the USA, Poland and Russia. It has been proved that the Masters’ training is on the search educational strategies phase, which allows to form a single educational space on the principles of internationalization, institutionalization, integration, cultural convergence, common goals and values. An important field of Masters’ training is a competency-based approach. It is based on the idea of flexibility, variability of programs, and profiling, philological integration with other humanities, criteria, standards and principles of improving the quality of education. Attention is focused on the formation of constructive-technological, operational, educational, reflective, educational, qualimetric and creative skills of future teachers. Among the perspective forms of education lecture is distinguished as it is focused on the co-creation and co-thinking of lecturer and students, monographic lectures. Among innovative teaching methods and assessment of Master training are selected case-method, cluster, reference compendium, portfolio, performance tests. The variability of final work is defined as an effective way of learning individualization. It has been proved that the result of Master’s training should be the specialist with a high level of social maturity, active citizenship, education, culture and responsibility for his professional and scientific activity.

Keywords

EN

university; Master philological training; competence approach; professional competence; educational technologies

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Comparative Professional Pedagogy
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 25-32

Dates

published

2015-03-01

online

2015-03-13

Contributors

author

Olena Semenog

• Institute of Pedagogical Education and Adult Education, Ukraine

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/rpp-2015-0017