CONCEPTUAL BASES OF THE RESEARCH OF DEVELOPMENT OF COMMON VET SYSTEM IN EU MEMBER STATE

Abstract

The article presents the conceptual foundations of the research of the development of vocational education and training systems in the European Union countries, which include: decomposition of expected results at the research level – the oretical and practical; the definition of methodological concepts (life-long learning paradigm, the phenomenon of a European dimension that is embodied and the creation of the foundations of European governance, citizenship, identity, environment, dichotomy in the development of pan-European VET systems – the preservation of national identity and the convergence of educational systems); integration in to the study of the system approach and the concept of development; definition of methods of compara- tive-pedagogical international research; a description of the context under lying the development of a common European policy in the field of vocational education and training as well as a perspective vision of this sphere; substantiation of the European model of management of the system of vocational education and training; find- ing out the common principles of quality assurance and justifying the model of this subsystem.