Academic Mobility and Professionalism of Higher School Staff in Ukraine: Evaluation and Assessment

Academic mobility as the mostly developed form of internationalization of an educational field helps integration of an individual into international educational community. It supports development of intercultural competences, promotes the chances of higher school teachers on professional self-realization and increasing their professionalism in teaching, researches and self-management. The main issues of our research are devoted to a higher school staff academic mobility as a social-cultural phenomenon, investigation of Ukrainian university teachers' mobile activity level, correlation of their academic mobility and professionalism, assessment of the main characteristics of a staff professional self-esteem which is a psychological background for permanent development of professionalism and self-development of a higher school teacher's personality. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of Dr. Zafer Bekirogullari of Cognitive - Counselling, Research & Conference Services C-crcs.