TYPOLOGY OF PROFESSIONAL LONGEVITY: INDUSTRY-SPECIFIC FEATURES AND AGE RESTRICTIONS IN THE VOCATIONAL EDUCATION SYSTEM

Abstract

In the context of demographic aging and increasing working life expectancy, professional longevity is becoming not only a socio-economic, but also a pedagogical problem directly related to the methodology and technologies of vocational education. The objective of the article is to develop a pedagogically oriented typology of professional longevity that takes into account industry specifics, age and regulatory constraints, as well as requirements for educational trajectories of employees of various age groups. The methodological basis of the research is the provisions of andragogy, the concept of lifelong learning, as well as a comparative analysis of international and national regulatory sources. The result is a typology of professional longevity, revealed through the dominant educational constraints and pedagogical tasks in various fields of economics. It is shown that the effectiveness of prolonging professional activity directly depends on the adaptation of the content, forms and technologies of vocational education to the age, professional and institutional characteristics of students.