ORIGINS OF THE PARTNERSHIP APPROACH IN ACTIVITY OF INNOVATOR TEACHERS OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE XX CENTURY

The article focuses on the unique activity of educators-innovators of the second half of the twentieth century. The paper looks at research dealing with the peculiarities of the implementation of the partnership approach due to the interaction of the teacher, learner and parents are revealed. The aspects of optimization of the educational process are distinguished through the prism of determination of the development of a partnership approach in a creative environment. The innovative educational system of educator-innovators is presented, which enables the intensification of interpersonal communication in the conditional partnership triangles: teacher-parents-learner. The scientific heritage of teacher-practitioners is analyzed to the specifics of educational and educational work, which envisaged the implementation of the dialogue strategy and cooperation. The work aims at revealing the origins of the partnership approach in the activities of educator-innovators (the 50s‒80s of the twentieth century). The methods used in the study are as follows: personal-biographical, historical and genetic, historical and comparative. This paper clarifies that the partnership approach is in the educational process through the cooperation of the teacher, parents and learner.It has been established that modern school education in Ukraine is developing in the system of “partnership pedagogy”, which is defined in the concept of “The New Ukrainian School” (2016). The genesis of the concept “partnership approach” is explained in the subject field of the heritage of educator-innovators; their ideas cultivate the educational intellectual and organizational core – a new culture of communication and cooperation. The tendencies of its formation revealed in the works of scientists are such as learner's motivation to learn, the autonomy of a learner, leadership, responsibility, effective assimilation of theoretical and practical knowledge on the principle of the partnership approach. As it is revealed, the ideas of teacher-innovators of the second half of the twentieth century are of practical significance since they provide a scientific understanding of the implementation of the tasks of modern education in Ukraine. Keywords: partnership pedagogy; affiliate approach; cooperation pedagogy; educator-innovator; personality; communication; interaction; school education.