Integration processes in continuing education

The article focuses on the features of educational networks and complexes as the result of the integration processes in education. The author justifies the necessity of a thoughtful approach in choosing priority areas and mechanisms of integration in social life and pedagogy. Integration is considered as an important source of modernization in education. The article analyses the potential of the «networking and cooperation within educational complexes». Based on the analysis of strategic documents aimed at the development of education in Russian in the recent years the author reveals the possibility of networking among institutions of various levels in ensuring continuity of education. Specific examples given in the article illustrate the possibilities of the educational complexes of various kinds in creating conditions for continuous education: «school - the system of the additional education of children - professional educational institutions». Describing structural changes, the author emphasizes the importance of informal interactions of all participants of the educational process.