TO THE QUESTION OF STUDYING THE PHENOMENON OF «CONTINUOUS EDUCATION»

Today, the request for continuous education is primarily related to the processes of globalization and socio-economic, socio-cultural and geopolitical transformations that are caused by it. They affect all spheres of life, leaving the question of change of man himself open, demand new approaches to assessingits role in the modern world. The article reveals the main approaches, principles to understanding the essence of the phenomenon of continuous education. The transformations of the concept «Continuous Education» convinces us that we are talking primarily about the education of adults, which is now seen as a subsystem of continuous education, starting from childhood and finishing with adulthood, because in the period of the scientific and technological revolution it is clear that general education and professional preparation, obtained in adolescence, is not enough. Continuous education must last a lifetime. The current stage of continuous education allows us to identify features of unity in the process of its formation, which is due to: the transformation of continuous education into an object of scientific research; creation of a scientific base of continuous education, complex interaction of the sciences of society and man; humanization of education, at the center of which is the studying and education of individuality. The process of continuous education is based on such principles as succession and consistency, taking into account social, economic and political requirements, territorial features, cultural needs of the population. Each of these principles operates in all the structures of continuous education, uniting the subjects of learning with the goals that are formulated in the course of the evolution of education itself and the changes that occur in society. In continuous education, the category of succession is especially important. It becomes the basic basis of continuity. And this raises the problem of choosing special research methods. It was found out that the technology of succession is the implementation of a systematic approach in the construction of the educational process, the use of the set of methods and techniques that ensure the progressive transition of children and students from one level of education to the next, creating conditions for comprehensive development of the child's personality. This technology determines the unity and interconnection both vertically and horizontally of all the blocks of the educational process.