Professional Mobility of the Manager of a Secondary Education Institution as the Basis of His or Her Self-Development

Abstract

The article provides a substantiation of the essence of the concept of «development of professional mobility of the manager of a secondary education institution». It is provided that the process of development of professional mobility of a school manager will be effective on the basis of its organizers and the public understanding the connection of such mobility, self-development of the specialist during life and professional mobility to strengthen the intellectual and educational environment of Ukrainian secondary education institutions. The purpose of the study was to find out the possibilities of identifying and influencing the educational manager's selfdevelopment traits by analyzing publications of scientific pedagogical journals made by different groups of authors in order to improve the professional mobility of the manager by means of training at a pedagogical university and institute of postgraduate pedagogical education. The article is empirical and is based on a secondary analysis of significant theoretical positions of Ukrainian and foreign authors. The research is based on the author's method of content analysis of pedagogical publications of two Ukrainian scientific journals with the addition empirical (questioning, observation, expert evaluation) and statistical (computer quantization of content, mathematical quantitative and qualitative data analysis) methods. The study concludes that the proposed approach to the study of the content of pedagogical publications and the use of this data to improve programs for the development of professional mobility of managers of secondary education institutions, the construction of individual trajectories of their selfdevelopment.