Continuity as an attribute characteristic for the process of polylingual professional education

Abstract

The authorshave analyzed the concept of «continuing professional education» by means of definitions and theories developed by native and foreign scientists, and characterized the principles for functioning of continuing education system, the general tendencies and specific approaches for teaching foreign languages in the system of continuous foreign language education. The postulates of educational strategy «Life-long learning» have been introduced in correlation to the concepts of polylingual education. The principles and problems of continuing education determined by external factors of society, technology and economy progress, by geopolitical conditions, socio-cultural traditions and different tendencies to influencing education development are presented as the prerequisites of problem at issue. There is provided overviewing the researches referred to the problems of foreign language professional training in the context of continuous learning; in the article there are considered various approaches for studying the system of continuing professional education regarding to the practice of continuous and successive foreign language education, and characterized the methodical aspects of functioning of continuous foreign language education system. There are consistently specified the problems of developing the strategy of continuing professional education and conditions for realizing the idea of continuing polylingual education on the basis of continuity principles of the content, educational process and organizational support. The authors prove theoretical prerequisites for implementation of pedagogical model of continuing polylingual education with continuity as an attribute characteristic for complete and consistent educational process.