MODERN PROBLEMS OF ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION OF UNIVERSITY TEACHERS
In recent decades, the development of additional professional education has become one of the most urgent pedagogical problems. The modern period of Russian education is characterized not only by the aggravation of contradictions in additional professional education, but also by the acquisition of a special social status. The article reveals its specificity, due to the fact that the subject of education in it is an adult who already has professional education, professional and life experience, justifies the advantages of the modern system of additional education, the state in its flexibility, rapid response to changing needs for work force, the implementation of the already actualized needs of the individual. The factors motivating an adult student are identified: awareness of the gap between the actual and necessary level of knowledge for effective professional activity; desire for professional growth; desire to understand the problems that are outside of personal life and have a global character; desire to learn new technologies of activity; desire to get higher ratings from the reference group.