Comparative Professional Pedagogy Center
The Comparative Professional Pedagogy Center is founded in conjunction with the Institute of Pedagogical and Adult Education of NAPS of Ukraine on the basis of Khmelnytskyi National University (KhNU). This is due to the fact that the KhNU searches for the ways of advanced training for the specialists of different areas and qualifications. Furthermore, this higher educational establishment has created a system for pre-university and postgraduate training, which is aimed at the young people profession choice.
The University holds an adjusted system for pedagogical specialists training and has highly qualified professionals who have a good command of foreign languages and study international practices. The Khmelnytskyi National University has established contacts with pedagogical institutions of the USA, Germany, France, Canada and Great Britain.
The Comparative Professional Pedagogy Center is a scientific and methodical union of researches who are engaged in the benchmarking analysis of vocational education modern systems, study and recommend new ideas and practical studies be considered for further implementation.
The Centre’s aim and significance consist in training based on the analysis and the results of experimental verification of the propositions, regarding possible ways for vocational education improvement in Ukraine. The Comparative Professional Pedagogy Center establishes programs and determines the analytical comparisons methodology.
The Comparative Professional Pedagogy Center establishes international cooperation with worldwide pedagogical institutions and organizations in the Pedagogy development, training and retraining technologies.
The Comparative Professional Pedagogy Center provides conditions for training new generation research teaching staff (schoolmasters, education institutions professors), who master comparative study methodology and acquire modern educational technology.
The Comparative Professional Pedagogy Center organization structure is as follows: the division of comparative studies on current problems of world and Ukrainian staff training and retraining organization; the division of elaboration and preparation of projects for the professional education and specialists training/retraining development; the editing and publishing division, computer centre; the division of international co-operative activities organization and execution; the division of research finding experimental verification.