Meta-theory of modern pedagogical knowledge: Innovation, professional development

This article deals with some aspects of modern pedagogical knowledge, in particular with the role of meta-theory in innovations. The innovation is viewed through the prism of meta-theory as the ability to a new, reflexive, constantly updated knowledge; openness to innovative changes on the grounds of critical thinking; development of creative abilities; ability, readiness and ability to continuous professional self-development and self-disclosure. The general understanding of “meta-theory” has been explored as a complex term used to identify such systems, which in turn is applying to describe or to research other systems. The innovative development of higher education is in the article one of such systems, which is based on the professional self-improvement of subjects of the educational process and disclosed with the help of the reflexive system of meta-theory of philosophy. The methods of terminological analysis, abstraction, idealization, formalization and generalization are used. It was found out that innovative development of higher education is based on professional self-improvement of subjects of educational process and disclosed with the help of reflexive system of meta-theory of philosophy. It is proved that innovative processes in high school can not be considered without the self-improvement of the personality, gaining global significance.