SOCIAL AND PEDAGOGICAL ASPECTS OF ADULT LEARNING IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of social and pedagogical aspects of adult learning in European countries in modern society. The most of European countries have a legislative and regulatory framework for the regulation of adult learning, which defines its goals, principles and mechanisms of state support, main actors, their rights and obligations, ways of coordinating the actions of different providers of educational services, principles and financing. Summarizing the above, it is necessary to conclude that in the UK and other European countries specialists receive professional training according to the standard of profession, that is, according to the set of professional and personal qualities and properties, which are very important in the organization of professional training. The author highlights the peculiarities of European adult learning. Thus, the main directions of adult learning development in the international environment are: experiments on nonlinear organization of the educational process, introduction of credit system and rating assessment, development and realization of individual educational programs, organization of interaction with the labor market, customers and consumers of professional personnel and creation the effective system of quality management of adult education.