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In article are stated historical aspects of education and a stage of development of the concept of continuous education, a problem and prospect of formation of modern continuous education with the account of three positions of its origin. Realisation of the concept of the substantial-structural approach to construction of system of the continuous education, providing integrity and a development continuity competences is considered.

The relevance of the study is determined by the search for means of psycholinguistic evaluation of the level of professional competence of students of the faculty of education. One of the tools is the modelling of the structure of professionally significant concepts based on the results of a free associative experiment. The purpose of the research: to reconstruct the “teacher” concept in the consciousness of future primary school teachers based on the survey of informants – students of the Faculty of Psychological, Pedagogical and Special Education.