PRECONDITIONS AND FACTORS OF THE TRANSFORMATION OF HIGHER PEDAGOGICAL EDUCATION IN THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC

The article highlights the key prerequisites and factors that determined the transformation of higher pedagogical education in Slovakia and its integration into the European educational space. The statement of basic materials. After changing the model of social organization in 1989, the development of Slovakia was focused on the post-socialist modernization and integration of the higher education system into the European educational space. Among the most significant objective prerequisites and factors of the macro level, which influenced the different stages of the reform, it was highlighted: the collapse of the “socialist camp” and the intensification of integration processes, the collapse of Czechoslovakia and the creation of an independent Slovak Republic (1993), European Community support for educational change in Slovakia and its accession to the EU (2004). The educational policy was also dependent on the internal political, socio-economic and socio-demographic conjuncture of the development of the Slovak society. XX - early. XXI century. It was emphasized that an important internal prerequisite for reforming Slovak pedagogical education was the need to overcome the crisis in the teaching profession. It has been established that an important factor in the transformation in the higher education system was the influence of the European community and the Euro-integration aspirations of Slovakia.