The lifelong learning theory examines professionaldevelopment of all those working in community learning anddevelopment, further education, higher education, and workbased learning. The lifelong professional development canbe understood as a an organized purposeful process aimedat the raising the level of professional skills by improving professional competences in compliance with the new social­and­economical, technological and/ or international requirements and standards. However, not much

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... earch currently exists on the process of lifelong professional development of scientific­and­pedagogical personnel.The goal of this study was to examine methodological bases of life­long professional development model of scientific­and­ pedagogical personnel on the general scientific, specific scientific and methodological­and­technological levels. Research indicates that integration of the andragogicalapproach, the competence­based approach and themodular approach into pedagogical conceptual model ineducational practice of Chelyabinsk State PedagogicalUniversity provided a significantly positive development oflifelong advanced training. These results provide generalsupport for lifelong professional development hypothesis