Progressive practices of government management in preschool teachers professional training in western European countries

Abstract

Government management plays an important part in each branch of social activity and influence on its quality as well. It has a very essential importance in the sphere of professional education. The governmental initiations in teachers' professional education have a great influence not only on quality but also on standards and qualification and models of getting the profession as well. The purpose of this article is to show how the governmental management initiations in preschool teaching professional education make the profit for its quality, development, and improvement. The governmental management of preschool teachers' professional training, qualifications requirements to preschool teachers is important for the standardisation of qualification framework of preschool teachers and preschool teachers' professional education system functioning in different European countries are presented as progressive practices for effective preschool teachers' professional training. These practices of government management are analysed from the perceptivity of implementation into Ukrainian system of pedagogical education. The investigation of the progressive practices of preschool teachers' professional training in Western European countries allowed us to distinguish three directions of this experience implementation into Ukrainian higher pedagogical education system. The directions are divided into the levels such as improvement: governmental, institutional and procedural. The studding of progressive European experience also forms the basis for the development of The New Conception of preschool teachers' professional training in Ukraine, thus the authors emphasise the necessity of systemic comparative investigation of different aspects of this experience and point out the organisational and methods aspect require the comparative analysis, which will be the next step of the complex study.