Modernization aspects of teachers’ advanced training in Southern Europe and Ukraine

The article describes the actual aspects of the modernization of teachers’advanced training systems in the countries of Southern Europe and in Ukraine; the evolution ways and features of advanced training in the European region are analyzed, which have influence on the reform of the national systems of teachers’ advenced training of Southern Europe countries and Ukraine; priority areas for the use of foreign experience are indentified and the main trends of modernization of teachers’ advanced training in Ukraine are summarized. The study justified that the modernization of professional and ideological-methodological training of teachers is determined by the processes of globalization and the information society and promotes the renewal of the methodology of scientific knowledge contradictions, problems of pedagogical science, formulating and solving problems of training a professional teacher in high school. It was found that a qualitative change of higher educational establishment teacher and fulfillment of the mission in the new civilization are possible when creating a new model of training of high school teachers in the system of postgraduate education, as well as the relevant normative-legal field.