Development of Professional Competencies within the Further Education of Dance Teachers

Introduction The perfection of the competencies as integrative pedagogical category in the education of the dance teachers is an innovative approach to the common social-cultural space. As perceived by the authors of the article, the competencies of the dance teachers in their objective contents' structure arise from their individual experience and the opportunities of gaining the experience by life action. Aim of the Study To establish the dance teachers' competences and to construct a model for the further education of the dance teachers on the basis of the theoretical and empirical research. Materials and Methods Theoretical methods (the analysis and modelling of the professional competencies of the dance teachers) and the empirical (survey analyses and processing) research methods have been implemented in the research. Results Theoretically based dance teacher competency development model for the further education is worked out. Conclusions The dance teacher professional competencies' subject content structure is constructed by two components-the subjective and the objective - correlation, which is based on the basic principles of the further education (self-experience, other experience, the world experience) and is implemented by the continuous life-long education.