Foresight-bureau as a mechanism for the development of international professional-pedagogical interaction

The research problem and the rationale for its relevance. Since 2019, the International Methodical Center “The Academy of Pedagogical Art: Skills of the XXI century” has been operating as a set of organizational and methodical conditions for professional interaction of teachers from different regions of the Russian Federation, the Republic of Belarus and the Republic of Kazakhstan. An empirical analysis of five-year experience in implementing the activities of the International Methodical Center has demonstrated that a necessary condition for the systematic development of international cooperation among teachers is the foresight-bureau “Andragogue of XXI century” as a platform for professional interaction of specialists accompanying the continuous professional development of teachers and determining development vectors based on identified educational trends. The definition of Foresight-Bureau has been used in the context of activities since 2019 and has been adopted by its participants, but the concept itself has not been formulated yet. The goal of research. This article describes the achievement of the purpose to formulate the definition of the Foresight-Bureau concept based on its characteristic features, functions performed and tasks solved, clarifying the purpose of the Foresight-Bureau and describing the principles of its activities. Methodology (materials and methods). The research was conducted using the method of content analysis of scientific sources of the last decade, semantic analysis, methods of analysis and synthesis to determine the studied object - the Foresight-Bureau, an empirical analysis of the experience of organizing the activities of the foresight- bureau in the structure of the International Methodical Center “The Academy of Pedagogical Art: Skills of the XXI century”.