Theoretical and methodological foundations of continuing education

Abstract

The term “continuing education” does not have a universal definition: there are several dozen of its definitions in Russian and foreign literature in which the nature of continuing education comes down to its determination either as an educational system or as a process. In addition, several approaches can be given to the definition of the continuous education essence; each approach takes one or another facet of the essence of continuing education, around which the corresponding theories are built, into the center of analysis. The author also correlated with the term “continuous education” such concepts as “continuous education”, “lifelong learning”, “adult education”, “continuing professional education”, and “additional education”.

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