COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF FUTURE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS TRAINING IN ROMANIA AND HUNGARY

The paper aims to present the results of a comparative analysis of the systems of future primary school teachers training in Hungary and Romania. It has been found that, in Romania and Hungary, the level structure of higher edu-cation is used according to the Bologna system; however, in Hungary, there are two models of future teacher training: a vertical model is used in the universities of the country, according to which students receive a qualification of a pre-school or primary school teacher based on Bachelor's and Master's degrees; and a horizontal model, according to which professional competences are acquired by future primary school teachers at colleges (Bachelor's degree). The achievements of the Romanian and Hungarian pedagogical experience have been highlighted, which can be used to modernize the process of future primary school teachers professional training in Ukraine, namely: increasing the num-ber of psychological and pedagogical disciplines with specification of professional focus for the primary education field; the introduction of a “Teacher of Primary Education” qualification in the domestic system of pedagogical educa-tion providing students with professional competencies of a preschool teacher; a teacher of 1-4 grades of primary school, a foreign language teacher in 1-4 grades of primary school and 5-9 grades of secondary schools in bachelor's and Master's programs with the possibility of choosing an additional specialization.