The Organization of Professional Development of Specialists of the Sociocultural Centers for Children: Towns of Professions, Parks of Science, Interactive Museums

The article analyzes education and leisure centers for children, the edutainment-centers. The focus is on the development of new social culture, an increase of the demand in edutainment-centers, problems of competency-based development and profiles of experts’ competencies, including their vocational training at corporate and university programs. The purpose of the research is to study the institutional development of edutainment-centers, identify their differences and advantages from traditional institutions (schools), analyze the features of developing technologies in edutainmentcenters as well as the features of teacher training according to corporate standards. As a result of the study, the features of the institutional and geographical development of the edutainment-centers, the features of educational environment for children, the features of the programs for children, the features of the teacher training programs for the edutainment-centers, the specifics of the development of future competencies in children in the edutainment-centers are characterized. The practical significance of the study is new knowledge about the educational industry as an industry for the development of human potential.