The current state of professional adult education in the Republic of Belarus

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The article deals with the necessity of studying the peculiarities of additional adult education organization in the Republic of Belarus, which is related to the identification of progressive ideas about additional adult education in Ukraine, improvement of this education area in Ukraine. The legislative sphere of education is analyzed and it has been found out that the Code of the Republic of Belarus on education adoption and its section XIV "Additional Adult Education" was the impetus for the development of this kind of education. The content of twelve types of educational programs is determined and characterized. It is substantiated that adult education is a priority area, integral part of lifetime education system and is one of the important factors of socio-economic development of the country. It is a flexible system that is constantly expanding. The reasons for the development of additional adult education such as introduction of the program of sustainable development of the country, economic growth and others are revealed. The directions of additional adult education elucidation by Belarusian and Ukrainian researchers are determined. The forms of additional adult education organization both traditional and informal are characterized. It has been established that informal education has a rather significant impact on the education as a whole, and on the field of adult education in particular. The mechanisms and ways for the development of both traditional and informal additional adult education in Belarus are highlighted. The main tasks for the development of additional adult education are as follows: improving the system of adult education organization taking into account the changes taking place in society and in development trends of education system of the Republic of Belarus, improving the additional adult education content, developing distance adult education, ensuring compliance of the additional adult education content to the consumers' educational services requirements, developing and improving of teaching and methodological support of educational process, improving statutory and regulatory base of additional adult education, creating the environment for open, flexible education of adult learners.

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