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goals of UPGRADING SKILLS among ADULTS in single-industry CITIES
M.B. Zhumadilova
1. The main goal of the adult education system as a social institute is to provide social and educational assistance to the adult social group in their adaptation to new living conditions, i.e. in defining their place and role in the production, social and cultural life of society and developing proper behavior patterns in extreme situations. Identifying people's social and educational needs helps define new targets for educational services, and a new strategy, content, forms and methods of working with this group of the population.
The Message of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Nursultan Nazarbayev, to the people of Kazakhstan entitled "Kazakhstan-2050 Strategy: A New Policy of the Established State" sets the goal of increasing the number of selfemployed individuals, in particular by means of upgrading skills and retraining adults in single-industry cities. The functional goals of upgrading skills among adults in single-industry cities include the following: (1) managing qualitative change in education systems; (2) forecasting educational needs of the population; (3) developing new educational information systems, etc. A modern innovative approach to educational technologies requires a systemic discussion of issues in both retraining of learners and assisting them in acquiring necessary high quality knowledge. This includes not only information support (static material, necessary literature, other information sources), but also ongoing information reproduction. This approach is supported by the following: In recent decades, there has been a notable growth of information flows and amounts of data, which requires that they be specifically systematized to identify the most informative sectors for the adult population.
3. A comparative analysis of systems for information support of educational and research institutions has identified the following shortcomings: they are of local nature, and interface opportunities are low, which complicates work for untrained users. Therefore, it is relevant to carry out special research that will enable a wide range of users to work in the online access environment.
4. In the context of the expected strategic change in education, the system of upgrading skills has the following goals: (a) develop an adaptive technology for managing the system of training and upgrading skills of education workers to provide a strategy of modern teacher education on the basis of self-development of the personality of a specialist capable of innovative activity; (b) develop differentiated programs of training and upgrading skills for specialists taking into account individual needs of different groups of adults; (c) develop teaching and learning aids to support the learning process for specialists in each sector of the economy; (d) provide individual creative multi-level training and upgrading of skills for specialists in line with their personal interests, capabilities and needs, as well as with social and economic demands; (e) create a monitoring mechanism for ongoing analysis of external and internal factors of active mastering of new educational and
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managerial techniques and social design methods; (f) create a database of education workers to automate the collection, processing and storage of pedagogical information and provide free access to it for teaching staff.
5. The most significant of the expected changes are related, firstly, to the enhanced role of upgrading skills and self-actualization of an individual as an actor of education and, second, the extension of the professional field of teachers and specialists in the context of lifelong education.
6. The main outcomes of the implementation of the goals set will include the following: (1) increased educational potential of the region due to the high level of training; (2) development and implementation of a new concept of a "resource center for adults", which will help improve the quality of adult education; and (3) development of a new mission of the regional system of education management.
Translated from Russian by Znanije Central Translations Bureau
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