S. Batychenko, O. Kryvets, THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FEATURES OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS LECTURERS
S. Batychenko
ORCID ID: 0000-0001-5400-9076
O. Kryvets
ORCID ID: 0000-0001-7464-6558
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine
THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FEATURES OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS LECTURERS
Abstract:
In today’s world, an adult faces many challenges, which determine the need to learn continuously, improve one’s skills, and sometimes even change one’s profession. The concept of adult education has been developed in the view of a number of issues, namely, natural aging of the population and demographic crisis; rapid external labor migration; labor market imbalance associated with a significant number of workers with higher education and shortage of workers; modern competencies by people aged “45+” insufficient for successful employment and active participation in public life; lack of state policy on adult education in Ukraine during all the years of independence, in contrast to the EU policy and practice in this area. Due to the lack of open, complete and reliable information on adult education, as well as its components, namely the professional growth of employees in general and lecturers in particular, sociological research on these issues. The issues of improving the professional growth of employees, the peculiarities of the organization of the process of professional growth of employees, self-education and the most effective forms of adult education are revealed. As a result of a sociological study, it was found that employees are ready for self-education and professional growth, but it should be supported by employers and officials at various levels. Investigating the issues of professional growth of lecturers of higher education establishments, a sociological study was conducted in 2020 and 2021. The study has revealed the issue of compliance with legislation and actual implementation of conditions for professional growth of lecturers; dependence on advanced training and career growth; self-education and skills gained as a result, as well as a rating of soft skills; self-education for development of soft skills; features of the combination of family and professional duties; satisfaction with working conditions and subsequent desire to change one’s job. The study has established that a high percentage of respondents are committed to advanced training in accordance with the legislation of Ukraine; half of the respondents believe that there is no correlation between one’s professional growth and career growth; the share of lecturers involved in self-education for development of soft skills is growing every year; a third are dissatisfied with working conditions, and half of the respondents are about to change their jobs.
Keywords: adult education, lifelong learning, professional growth, self-education, soft skills.
Language: English`
DOI: http://doi.org/10.17721/1728-2721.2021.80-81.3
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Suggested citation:
Batychenko S., Kryvets O., 2021. The professional development features of higher education institutions lecturers. Visnyk Kyivskogo nacionalnogo universytetu imeni Tarasa Shevchenka, Geografiya [Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Geography], 3/4 (80/81), 18-22 (in English, abstr. in Ukrainian), DOI: 10.17721/1728-2721.2021.80-81.3
Received Editorial Board 09.10.2021
Accepted for publication 09.11.2021