REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL CLUSTER AS A MECHANISM FOR ENSURING CONTINUITY OF TEACHER EDUCATION

Abstract

Analyzing the scientific and methodological literature and her own experience of professional and pedagogical activity, the author examines the possibilities inherent in the regional educational cluster as a means of ensuring continuity in the Russian pedagogical education system. The transformational challenges facing Russian education at the national and regional levels are being specified. Directions of activity of educational organizations and other structures interested in improving the quality of teacher training at various levels are determined, in the implementation of which it is necessary to find answers to such challenges. The concept of “an educational cluster” is defined. The study of its capabilities as a mechanism ensuring the functioning of the system of continuous pedagogical education is carried out. In addition, the relevant potential of the educational cluster is being considered in relation to the space of the regions of Russia, and the main directions of its functioning in this capacity are being studied.