TRANSFORMATION PROCESSES IN THE HIGH SCHOOL OF THE USA (XX–XXI C.)

  • I.V. Kozubovska
  • O.Ya. Stoyka
Keywords: professional training, US high school, transformation processes, elective system of curriculum, credit-module system of education

Abstract

This article focuses on peculiarities of transformation processes in higher education of the USA. The period of the XX–XXI century is considered particularly significant in the development of the US education (elective courses, credit system, distance learning, academic mobility, labor market orientation). The typology of institutional reforms includes: the conversion of 1st and 2nd order, evolutionary and revolutionary, adaptive and generative, active and reactive transformations.

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Published
2016-09-26
Pages
108-112
Section
SECTION 2 THEORY AND METHODOLOGY OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION