PRACTICE AS A ZONE OF ADVANCED DEVELOPMENT IN TRAINING RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE TEACHERS IN THE CONDITIONS OF EDUCATION REFORM

The article provides a justification for developing and testing the concept of unified practice as a zone of advanced development in the context of reforming higher pedagogical education in Russia. It defines the main directions and approaches to the design and implementation of new generation practice programmes. The article presents the experience of implementing the concept of unified practice at all levels of education, analyses the obtained results, identifies “risk points” and suggests ways to solve them in training Russian language and literature teachers.