CERTAIN ASPECTS OF ADVANCING THE SYSTEM OF ACADEMIC STAFF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN GERMANY FROM THE MID 1970S TO THE BEGINNING OF THE 21 ST CENTURY

Abstract

The article studies and analyzes some aspects of advancing the system of academic staff professional development in Germany the mid 1970s to the beginning of the 21 st century. According to the research algorithm, the conditional periods of advancing the system of academic staff professional development in Germany from the mid-1970s to the beginning of the 20 th century (center of higher school didactics): the first period (from the mid-1970s to the 1980s) is characterized with ideologizing higher education and the system of academic staff professional development in East Germany and deideologizing higher education and he system of academic staff professional development in West Germany; stabilizing international relations in Europe, which contributed to the effectiveness of international cooperation with foreign system of academic staff professional development; lack of adequate state funding for higher education and system of academic staff professional development, material and moral incentives for professional development of academic staff; renewal of the system of academic staff professional development in East and West Germany as a result of reforming the systems of higher professional and postgraduate education; the second period (the 1990s - the beginning of the 21st century) is characterized with intensive development of the system of academic staff professional development in Germany (after the unification there were positive changes which led to improving political, socio-economic living conditions, increased scientific-research potential of the country and organizational-pedagogical conditions for advancing the system of academic staff professional development as well as integrating the system of academic staff professional development in the European and international educational space). The identified ideologicalpolitical and socio-economic factors of the first period revealed two general trends: a need to improve the academic staff professional development (due to the unbalanced educational policy of East and West Germany); internationalizing the system of the academic staff professional development in East and West Germany (due to strengthening international cooperation). Analyzing the references, the author could single out the ideologicalpolitical, socio-economic and organizational-pedagogical factors of advancing the system of the academic staff professional development (centers of higher school didactics) in Germany from the mid 1970s to the beginning of the 21 st century.