SOCIAL, PEDAGOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ISSUES OF INFORMATIZATION OF ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

Today, social and communicative space is the most powerful conglomerate of endless information flows and global networks in which an individual loses the ability to fully and objectively perceive, analyze and use information obtained in the process of communication. The biggest problem is caused by the fact that quite often people, who obtain information from the virtual environment, perceive it as 100% truth and cannot correctly correlate it with the reality, which results in the personality transformations. Such transformation occurs as manifestations of social and psychological phenomenon. Along with this, the information and communication space is a dynamic elevator of individual and status growth, providing an individual with the enormous potential for development, self-expression and self-improvement. In the context of global social transformations, the educational system should be focused on the development of an effective pedagogical paradigm, which is designed to provide favorable conditions for both social and professional development of individuals throughout their lives. Along with this, the informatization, as a global social process, necessitates strengthening of the information orientation of Russian education system, searching for new educational technologies and teaching methods. The article presents the results of a sociological study devoted to the study of the process of informatization of CPE in the Russian region. The most common uses of the Internet in the implementation of CPE programs are established. Promising trends in the development of CPE informatization are identified. (C) 2019 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.UK