IMPROVING THE QUALITY AND AVAILABILITY OF EXTRAORDINARY EDUCATION AS INDICATORS OF THE EFFICIENCY OF THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
Authors:   Volodymyr Vynnychenko Central Ukrainian State Pedagogical University, Savchenko Nataliia 
Published: April 2021

The article analyzes the problem of transition to a qualitatively new state of extracurricular education as an integral part of the entire education system in the process of education reform in Ukraine. The need to identify the role and place of extracurricular activities with enormous educational potential in the system architecture of education has been updated. Extra-curricular activities are considered as educational institutions that are tasked with creating the conditions for socialization, further self-realization and / or professional activity and civic development of children and young people, as well as organizing their meaningful leisure. Emphasis is placed on the accessibility and quality of extracurricular education in Ukraine and ways to improve it. In modern scientific and pedagogical research it is emphasized that the system of extracurricular education is unique in approaches to the organization of educational work, which determines its important place in the educational branch of Ukraine. As a separate socio-pedagogical phenomenon, it has been formed and developed in accordance with the specific socio-cultural, economic development of the country as a whole and regions in particular. Accessibility or equal access to education determines that no matter where the child is born - in a large city or small town or village - she is entitled to extracurricular education, to study in out-of-school educational institutions. In Ukraine, ensuring equal access to education, including extracurricular education, is one of the priority areas of public education policy. Further development of extracurricular education as an important component of the education system of Ukraine can be ensured only on condition of improving the quality of extracurricular education should be considered in organizational, technological, scientific, methodological and psychological-pedagogical aspects. It should also be noted that the process of improving the organizational and technological foundations of extracurricular education will be effective under the conditions of continuous support from the authorities. Thus, it should be emphasized that the realization of the educational potential of extracurricular educational institutions on the basis of modern psychological and pedagogical provisions and methodological bases of extracurricular education presupposes the presence of an appropriate legal framework, a system of scientific and methodological support, a modern material and technical base of the educational establishment; cooperation with other social institutions for the implementation of social functions of education, upbringing and socialization of children and youth and for improving such indicators of the effectiveness of the educational system of Ukraine as the quality and accessibility of extracurricular education. constant professional and creative interaction of scientists and practitioners with the support of state structures. Therefore, in our opinion, the problem of