Continuing professional education of English teachers: didactic approaches

Abstract

The article deals with the development and presentation of the methodology for the study of organizational and pedagogical principles of continuing professional education of the English language teachers, as well as the review of the main didactic approaches as components of the above mentioned process. Presented above concepts of methodology and didactic approaches form the basis for the aim of the article. It is noted that methodological basis for studying organizational and pedagogical principles of continuous professional education of the English language teachers in the countries of the European Union is the understanding that the activity of the teacher is a dialectical unity of his professional and personal principles. On the basis of this assumption, the consideration of the research attention is given not only to the scientific principles, content and methods of pedagogical science, within which the study of the content of continuous professional education (pedagogical activity) was conducted, but also to the knowledge of pedagogical psychology, sociology, culturology, that relate to the study of objective and subjective factors, determinants of continuous professional education of the English language teachers in the countries of the European Union. Considering the research methodology, a number of didactic approaches are identified and analyzed, in particular systemic, personally oriented, systemic activity, professional, axiological, competency approaches, as components of continuous professional education of the English language teachers. The conducted research opens the prospects for further study of theoretical and methodological background of the organization of the system of continuous professional education of the English language teachers in different countries of the world, as well as determination of possibilities for the borrowing of innovative foreign experience into the national system of continuous professional education.