scholarly journals Forschungsmethodologie zum Wesen und Inhalt der beruflichen Identität der Hochschullehrkräfte

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ausma Spona

Research on the development and self-realization of human personality is based on the perception of humans as philosophical beings. The question surrounding the „human being“ has become a question about the survival of humanity. In research centres in Europe, the USA, Canada, China, Australia the balance between biological, psyological and social components in human development is becoming an evermore active research focus. A research group from the Academy for Teacher Education and Educatioanl Administration Riga and the State University Smolensk (Russia) analyzed the professional identity of post-sendary teachers from two cultures with the aim of analyzing the nature of the professional identity of pedagogues and to determine a research methodology. Methodology in pedagogy involves teaching about the untiy of theory and research methods. The structure of scientific methodology is composed of four levels: 1) general theoretical, philosophical, methodological principles and approaches; 2) general pedagogical methodological principles; 3) regularities and principles of the sub-field of pedagogy; 4) principles of selection and use of research methodologies for a specific theme, based on empirical data. The methodological sources of this research are theoretical literature, dissertations in pedagogy as well as individual experiences of pedagogical and scientific activities. The research results show that the professional activity of post-secondary teachers and the quality of societal development influence and connect with each other.

Author(s):  
В. Бакиева ◽  
V. Bakieva ◽  
Д. Полуляхова ◽  
D. Polulyahova ◽  
А. Лобачева ◽  
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The article analyzes results of the study "Quality of graduates’ preparation of the Personnel Management Department and their postgraduate work career", aimed at assessing the effectiveness of employing specialists' the State University of Management, organized with the involvement of graduates of this department. In order to gather information as a basis for the study, authors compiled a questionnaire containing 30 questions, respondents had to assess the quality of their professional training, and then talk about their employment by answering questions concerning: compliance of the current profession with the acquired specialty; problems encountered in finding a job; factors that affected employment; sphere of company' activity, the scale of the company and its rating, the position of the respondent and the level of his salary. Also, functions that are performed in the process of professional activity were disclosed and graduates' satisfaction with the position taken as a whole. In addition, respondents answered questions related to the vision of the real profession in the labor market. Authors analyzed the results of the questionnaire, which ultimately allowed them to assess the quality of professional training of specialists and their postgraduate work career. Also, solutions were offered for solving the problems identified in the analysis process.


Author(s):  
Alīda Samuseviča ◽  
Santa Striguna

Formation of professional identity is an important point of reference for awareness of professional and personal experience. Moments of doubt and worry are both typical in the process of the acquisition of teacher’s profession, when going through these stages step by step, the belief in one’s own strength is achieved. The basis of teachers’ professional activity is their own self-development motivation and development together with their students, actualizing the didactic competence in the context of educational reforms. The self-educational competence can be characterised as an integrative quality of a personality and his/her professional activity, which is inseparable from the personality’s ability to engage in a systematic, independently organized cognitive activity directed towards the follow-up of education in general – cultural and professional aspects, and it is formed, organized and mentioned by the very subject of the cognitive activity. The data of the empirical research confirm that reflection on teachers’ involvement in the research and pedagogical work is a constant assessment process of their own activity and a requirement of modern education, as well as a deliberate professional necessity helping the practising teachers to develop their own theoretical and practical awareness of the issues of pedagogical competence enhancement.


Author(s):  
I. T. BOHDANOV ◽  
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Y. O. SUCHIKOVA ◽  
I. O. BARDUS ◽  
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...  

The article is devoted to the actual problem of improving the quality of professional training of future specialists in the field of nanomaterials to productive activities, namely the development of conceptual foundations for building an appropriate methodological system. The article proposes a conceptual idea of the study, which assumes that improving the quality of training of future specialists in nanotechnology will increase under the condition of systematic philosophical-natural-mathematical fundamentalization of learning content, as well as their involvement in productive synthesis of innovative nanomaterials based on dual education. The article highlights the conceptual principles of training future specialists in the field of nanotechnology for productive professional activity. In particular, methodological and theoretical bases of development of methodical system of fundamental professional training of future specialists for productive professional activity are given. General scientific methods of cognition, as well as systemic, competence-based, activity-based, integrative, prognostic, synergetic methodological approaches are determined by the methodological foundations. The theoretical foundations of the substantiation and development of the methodological system are determined by the philosophical provisions of the theory of knowledge, the general scientific provisions of the system approach, the psychological provisions of the theory of personality, the theory of creativity, models of knowledge representation, pedagogical laws, regularities, and principles of teaching. Based on the conceptual idea and theoretical and methodological principles defined organizational and pedagogical conditions, compliance with which in developing goals, content, methods, tools and forms of teaching methodological system of fundamental training of future professionals in nanomaterials will ensure the effectiveness of the formation of their professional competence to perform productive activities. Key words: nanotechnologies, professional training, fundamentalization, productive activity, system approach.


Author(s):  
Paula Gorobeca

The concept of professional identity is considered and topical from the perspective of different occupations. The professional identity of the dance teacher has so far not been researched scientifically and there are no studies about this concept. The article focuses on the term “teachers professional identity” and the formation process of the dance teacher’s professional identity model, as well as the explanation of components of this model from a dance teachers point of view. The aim of this article is to create a professional identity model of the dance teacher by analyzing scientific literature and using professional experience. The professional activity of the dance teacher directly affects the students both physically and psychologically, therefore it is especially important to pay attention to the issues of dance teacher’s professional identity, even more if these questions are not discussed in the study process and there are no related instructions or materials that reveal the essence of the professional identity concept in the world of dance. In a relatively short period of time that students spend in dance classes, teachers must maximize the positive impact on their students. Considering many factors of influence - family, school, friends, social networks, hobbies, dance educator should strive to create an understanding of behavior, aesthetics, tastes, positive relationships in the group, discipline and many more. Explaining professional identity from a creative point of view leads to greater insight into one's profession, as well as to assess the quality of one’s professional work and achievements.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 254-259
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Makarova ◽  
Ekaterina Sergeevna Stepanova

The paper is devoted to the problem of prospective teachers ecological competence development, as well as to the peculiarities of diagnostics of ecological competence components development. The goal of the paper is to show the experience of implementing a competence-based approach for a professional training of bachelors majoring in Pedagogical Education and methodological approaches aimed at assessing the process of professional competencies development. The paper deals with the concepts of environmental education and environmental competence. The authors define the environmental competence of a pedagogical university graduate as an integrated quality of personality based on theoretical knowledge, practical skills in the field of ecology and readiness of a prospective teacher for environmentally adequate and professionally appropriate behavior in situations of moral choice. A students environmental competence is presented as a complex system that includes a number of components (cognitive, value-motivational, professional-activity). The authors describe means of assessing students environmental competence development, paying special attention to a pedagogical testing. The paper defines the main stages of designing a pedagogical test and the conditions for its use. The paper also contains the results of a pedagogical experiment which was done at Natural Geography Institute of Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education. The use of testing for professional education makes it possible to determine the compliance of the content, level and quality of students training, while systematic testing allows you to evaluate the process of pedagogical university students environmental competence development.


Author(s):  
Anna Shapieva ◽  
Anna Rusanova ◽  
Viktoriya Lavrikova ◽  
Elena Filippova

Contemporary university education develops professional identity and builds customized academic trajectories. Career guidance technologies provide professional self-awareness and personality professionalization. At university, career guidance work is an integral part of continuous professional development of a future specialist. It covers pre-university education, higher professional education, and employment assistance. The present research featured the career guidance work conducted at the Transbaikal State University. The analysis showed that the current system lacks innovations, cannot solve the employment problem, and does not provide conditions for successful professional identity. The article introduces a set of project conditions of customized career guidance work with 1) applicants, in order to promote a conscious career choice; 2) students, to support their professional competencies and identity; 3) graduates, to facilitate their employment. The proposed comprehensive approach to career guidance will allow the university to improve the academic process and to work with the community from secondary school to the onset of professional activity.


Author(s):  
Larisa Afanasenko

In the article provided the research results of component indicators that define the professional identity of agrarian students while the period of training and education. Empirical data defined the determinant biographical indicators that influence the formation of professional self-identification, namely, positive experience of the student’s work in the agricultural sector and the positive emotional and appraisal of the individual’s view of the future profession formed on the basis of monitoring the professional activities of specialists in the agricultural sector. It is revealed that professional self-identification is a product of long-term personal and professional development, which appears in the process of professional activity and obtaining professional experience. There are also defined the determining curriculum parameters of professional identity and the scheme of professional identity components of agrarian students according to the training course. Presented the basic mechanisms of professional identity of the individual. Examined that the problem underlying the process of professional self-determination, which implies a deliberate act of career choices based on activation of the internal potential of the individual. Discovered professional identity as a semantic condition of professionalism formation that reflects the level of mastery by the human of the psychological structure of professional activity and providing of natural quality of self-realization. The notion was defined by serving an indicator of the internal maturity of the individual as a manifestation of professional identity, providing some stabilizing functions of socialization and integration of subject-object relations in professional activities.


Author(s):  
Zi-Yu Liu ◽  
Elena Chubarkova ◽  
Marina Kharakhordina

STEM education has become the normative base for teaching natural sciences, physical-mathematical disciplines and engineering sciences in a number of coun-tries. This technique has become the basis for a series of reforms for secondary and higher education in the USA, Australia, and some other countries. The meth-od involves the integration of training in the fields of mathematics, technical spe-cialties, scientific research and engineering. The widespread use of this technique and its active research throughout the world over the past ten years is due to the need to improve the quality of technical education and the ever-increasing rate of technological progress. This research is devoted to studying the impact of the STEM education introduction for 3rd year students of technical and pedagogical departments for improving the quality of training. The study involved two groups of students from two universities in Russia and China. The sample consisted of 316 people from each university, and the same amount was for control group to verify the results. The two study groups underwent training using two different STEM methodologies - “amalgam” and “interconnect”, which involve varying degrees of integration of various academic subjects within the coordinated STEM education. Both study groups used online-education integrated with STEM that helped to significantly increase the involvement of students in the learning pro-cess. All three groups passed pre-tests and post-tests on the learning outcomes before and after the introduction of the STEM education. The average grades re-ceived by students on studied disciplines show that the STEM education increas-es the academic performance with the statistical error of the study exceeded. The introduction of the “interconnect” method, which implies a greater integration of subjects during the training, showed provably higher results than the “amalgam” method. However, this study cannot be used to assess the quality and capabilities of each of these methods, since such an assessment requires additional research.


2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Māra Vidnere

The current conditions of economic variations impact the quality of student teachers’ training, their professional competence, and especially that of education, to a great degree. There is a noticeable trend in the labour market of a demand for occupations with high professional qualities, i.e., respective education. Consequently the social importance of pedagogy as a scientific discipline is increasing, and research about students’ academic interests are particuarly important today. A requirement for the effectiveness of this research is ist the ualiy of the research activity, that is if it meets the needs of personalities and of society. A sound foundation for the quality of the research is the development of the scientific methodology. For the development of pedagogy both sides are important—methodology and social function. To achieve successful with a professional activity the pedagogue must decide on his or her developmental aims and discover optimal possible ways to achieve them, be convinced of his/her choice of interests, and secure in and aware of his/her own values. The methodology develops in unity with the development of the pedagogy. In the following contribution the attitudes of student teachers towards their studies is analyzed as their academic orientation during the process of professional identity formation. The object of the methodology of the scientific discipline of pedagogy is resarch activity. The aim of this present study focuses on the orientations and interests of the students with regard to the teaching profession. Students’ orientations were analyzed as their academic orientation in the process of the development of their professional identity. The research adapted the survey about academic orientation (Davidson, Beck & Silver, 1999). The adaptation of the methodologies was conducted under the guidance of professors M. Vidnere and A. Špona and comprised 36 questions on the analysis of academic orientations by students. The question arises if student teachers develop a special area of interest which points to a specific academic orientation.


2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-59
Author(s):  
Mark Tomita

The Global Health Disparities CD-ROM Project reaffirmed the value of professional associations partnering with academic institutions to build capacity of the USA public health education workforce to meet the challenges of primary prevention services. The Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) partnered with the California State University, Chico to produce a CD-ROM that would advocate for global populations that are affected by health disparities while providing primary resources for public health educators to use in programming and professional development. The CD-ROM development process is discussed


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