The article reveals the theoretical interdisciplinary definition of the concept «professionalism» from the point of psychology, akmeology and pedagogics. Different approaches of outstanding psychologists, akmeologists and educators to its definition are analyzed. The author of the article attempts to track how the contempt of concept «professionalism» has been interpreted by, sociologists, psychologists, educators and akmeologists.

The different viewpoints of scientists from various fields of science, regarding to the concept «professionalism» have been analyzed and various theoretical and methodological approaches are proposed. The study of the scientific literature demonstrates that today the problem of professionalism is quite relevant, because our society is rapidly changing and simultaneously the eligibility criteria to the teachers are changing too. There are a lot of explanations of this notion and they depend on criteria which are taken into consideration while studying the problem of professionalism. As a result, this concept has been defined as a process (V. Sypchenko), professional

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