ENGINEERING FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT Jelgava, 27.-28.05.2010.

Abstract. Teacher education is the guarantor of the revival of Ukrainian educational traditions. Ukraine’s aspiration to integrate into the European educational space, the signing of the country of the Bologna Declaration set for higher pedagogical schools the task of reforming the education system. Today therefore higher pedagogical schools are in search for effective ways and means to adapt the national traditions of teacher training to the demands made by the process of integration and globalization. The article reveals how to solve thes