Development of professional culture in the activities of future teachers and psychologists

The formation of professional culture of an individual is one of the most important conditions for changing the system of training qualified educational psychologists. This article aims at studying the main prerequisites for effective building of professional culture of young specialists in the field of educational psychology.The research collected data from previous researches and analyzed them using content analysis. The analysis show that future specialists’ positive motivation to work is one of the key aspects that contribute to successful development of his/her competence and professional culture. The higher educational institution is an important factor for the formation of a new value system and should use its educational potential to form the proper attitude of future educational psychologists to the future professional activity. Keywords: competence practical psychology; professional activity; student’s preparedness; teacher-psychologist; professional development.

Men's academic performance 1950-1970s (on the example of creative activities of N. Apukhtin, A. Belov and G. Baukin)

The purpose of the article is to study artistic processes among ballet performers in the 1950s – 1970s on the example of the creative activity of Nikolai Apukhtin, Anatoly Belov, and Gennady Baukin. The methodology of the work includes the use of the following research methods: general historical, comparative, analytical, dialectical, systemic, etc. The scientific novelty of the publication lies in the fact that it first explored the professional culture in the field of male classical performance of the first half of the twentieth century on the example of the stage achievements of N. Apukhtin, A. Belov, and G. Baukin. Conclusions. The artistic contribution of the ballet premieres of the 1950s – 1970s. in the development of Ukrainian classical choreography on the example of the creativity of dancers N. Apukhtin, A. Belov, and G. Baukin, consists in the following: 1) a significant increase in the professional culture of performers due to the complication of the technical component and improvement of the actors' acting skills; 2) the creation of highly artistic images in ballets of the Soviet classics (B. Asafiev, R. Glier, A. Kerin, S. Prokofiev, A. Khachaturian, M. Chulaki, V. Yurovsky, etc.) and choreographic performances on national themes (V. Homolyak, K. Dankevich, G. Zhukovsky, V. Kireiko, N. Lysenko, A. Svechnikov, M. Skorulsky, B. Tishchenko, etc.); 3) transfer of professional experience in the process of pedagogical work to subsequent generations of Ukrainian dancers. Key words: N. Apukhtin, A. Belov, G. Baukin, male classical dance, Ukrainian ballet theater.

Formation of research competencies among students in the course of physics. Manipulative and dialogic strategies

В статье рассматриваются вопросы проектирования учебного процесса, с учетом наиболее оптимальных для достижения образовательных задач подходов, необходимости формирования профессиональных компетенций и профессиональной культуры при подготовке специалистов в области машиностроения, физико-технических наук и технологий, авиационной и ракетно-космической техники. Определяется возможность организации учебного процесса как некоторых этапов, на каждом из которых должна решаться определенная образовательная задача. Обосновывается необходимость пересмотра и внедрения новых форм взаимодействия участников образовательного процесса. Рассмотрены возможности курса физики и обоснована целесообразность использования манипулятивной стратегии для формирования исследовательских компетенций у обучающихся вузов. Материал представленный в статье является обобщением опыта преподавания физики в Военно-космической академии имени А.Ф. Можайского. Статья предназначена для преподавателей физики вузов. The article deals with the issues of designing the educational process, taking into account the most optimal approaches for achieving educational objectives, the need for the formation of professional competencies and professional culture in the training of specialists in the field of mechanical engineering, physical and technical sciences and technologies, aviation and rocket and space technology. The possibility of organizing the educational process as some stages is determined, at each of which a certain educational task must be solved. The necessity of revision and introduction of new forms of interaction of participants in the educational process is substantiated. The possibilities of the physics course are considered and the expediency of using a manipulative strategy for the formation of research competencies among university students is substantiated. The material presented in the article is a generalization of the experience of teaching physics at the Military Space Academy named after A.F. Mozhaisky. The article is intended for university physics teachers.

Semiotic vagueness as a tool for goal fulfilment

Over the past 15 years, ‘platform of values’ texts presenting core values have become common in most Swedish public authorities. This article presents a study of how this genre is understood and used in professional practices. The aim is to show how semiotic vagueness in such texts serves a number of previously under-researched purposes in public organizations, including, rather paradoxically, concrete goal achievement. The framework of critical genre analysis enables the analytical process to move from text to practice, and further to the superordinate level of professional culture. Three different data sets are analysed: 47 ‘platform of values’ texts; a focus group discussion with seven senior civil servants/managers; and a quantitative questionnaire study answered by civil servants from three public authorities. The findings suggest that vagueness serves as a means to exercise managerial control through the promotion of interpretative work and continuous, identity-related dialogues on value related issues. The article argues that even though such uses of the ‘platform of values’ genre may be functional in neo-bureaucratic organizations, it is also problematic when semiotic vagueness is used as a tool for concrete actions such as internal promotions.

Professional Culture Compatibility and Performance in International Joint Ventures: A Chinese Experience

<p>This research was influenced by Sirmon & Lane's (2004) model of cultural differences and international alliance performance. Sirmon & Lane's model introduced the concept and importance of partners' professional culture compatibility in international alliances. However, to date, their model lacks empirical testing. This research therefore took the study further by empirically investigating the influence of professional culture compatibility between partners and international alliance performance by using a selected sample of Sino-Foreign joint ventures in China. The findings overall support Sirmon & Lane's (2004) model that (1) Partners from similar national cultures experience lesser differences in their professional cultures as opposed to partners from diverse cultures; and, (2) Professional culture differences between partners negatively influence the overall performance of international joint ventures. However, this research also argues that the relationships shown in Sirmon & Lane's (2004) model are not as straightforward as was previously proposed, and the findings suggest several additional factors that contribute to the relationship between partner professional culture compatibility and international alliance performance.</p>

Professional Culture Compatibility and Performance in International Joint Ventures: A Chinese Experience

<p>This research was influenced by Sirmon & Lane's (2004) model of cultural differences and international alliance performance. Sirmon & Lane's model introduced the concept and importance of partners' professional culture compatibility in international alliances. However, to date, their model lacks empirical testing. This research therefore took the study further by empirically investigating the influence of professional culture compatibility between partners and international alliance performance by using a selected sample of Sino-Foreign joint ventures in China. The findings overall support Sirmon & Lane's (2004) model that (1) Partners from similar national cultures experience lesser differences in their professional cultures as opposed to partners from diverse cultures; and, (2) Professional culture differences between partners negatively influence the overall performance of international joint ventures. However, this research also argues that the relationships shown in Sirmon & Lane's (2004) model are not as straightforward as was previously proposed, and the findings suggest several additional factors that contribute to the relationship between partner professional culture compatibility and international alliance performance.</p>

Professional culture of a teacher as a condition for organizing of effective pedagogical interaction

The article is devoted to the consideration of various aspects of the formation and development of the professional culture of teachers. The first part of the publication reveals the concepts of "pedagogical culture", "professional culture of a teacher", "professional pedagogical culture", highlights the axiological, technological and personal and creative components of culture, which are structural components of professional and pedagogical culture. The authors give a step-by-step description of the process of forming a professional pedagogical culture. It is noted that pedagogical culture is an integral component of a pedagogical worker; describes a model of a modern teacher who has the necessary level of professional culture for the implementation of pedagogical activity, consisting of value, activity and personal components. The characteristics of the main components of pedagogical culture made it possible to present the process of formation of pedagogical culture as a gradual change of the following levels: adaptation, reproduction and creative search. On the basis of the essential, functional and structural analysis of the teacher's professional culture, the second part of the publication presents the results of an empirical study of the group of authors on the research topic, identifies the levels of the formed teacher's pedagogical culture. The study was conducted from 2017 to 2019 on the basis of three regional institutes for the development of additional professional education in the Volga Federal District; the sample consisted of 370 people. Based on the results of the research work, a program for the development of pedagogical culture was developed. The content of the program is determined by the diagnostic block represented by diagnostic techniques; a developmental block aimed at the formation of the value and activity components of the teacher's pedagogical culture and consisting of activities that stimulate the professional activity of teachers and improve pedagogical skills and a correctional block aimed at designing and implementing a system of measures to analyze and correct real or potential problems of teachers in the personal sphere.

SPIRITUAL FOUNDATIONS OF PROFESSIONAL CULTURE OF AN ENGLISH TEACHER

The professional culture of an English teacher as a systemic characteristic and activity of a foreign language teacher's personality, which is an integral unity of such interrelated and interdependent components as need-motivational, activity-personal, organizational and creative, are considered in this article. The aim of the research is to substantiate theoretically the spiritual foundations and pedagogical conditions for the formation of the professional culture of future English teachers in the higher education system. The professional culture is considered as the way in which teachers develop their activities in educational institutions. Among the indicators that can be used to characterize the spiritual foundations of professional culture of an English teacher, the following are distinguished: the level of assimilation common spiritual values and culture; the nature of choice and the level of participation personality in the production of spiritual values, in the development and consumption of spiritual wealth; orientation of motives for participation in the creation and consumption of spiritual values; the level of education, qualifications, cultures of thinking, feelings and behavior. The components of professional pedagogical culture: axiological, technological and personal and creative are analyzed. The strategic provisions of the concept of academician G. Shevchenko on the importance of education and upbringing, which should fulfill the most important mission of the current civilization – to form the “Spiritualized Image of Man of Culture of the XXIst century” in the younger generations are used. The professional culture of an English teacher is determined as a systematic characteristic and activity of the personality of a foreign language teacher, which represents the integral unity of such interrelated and interdependent components: need-motivational, activity-personality, organizational and creative. The structural components of the professional culture of a future English teacher are characterized.

VIGILANT JOURNALISM: ETHICAL AND DEONTOLOGICAL DILEMMAS

This papers investigates whether forms of caring surveillance exist in journalism alongside the better known form of threatening surveillance. It explores which ethical and deontological approaches regulate them, and whether journalists, who rightly fear surveillance technology when used to threaten their professional independency, suddenly see it as a useful and beneficial tool when it’s put into use by journalists themselves. Surveillance in journalism has been depicted under an Orwellian aura that implies an inner negativity and malignity. Given the worrisome number of published on the mounting dangers and threats that journalism faces, especially in the digital realm, this scary depiction of surveillance is still dramatically true. Still, forms of surveillance practices daily occur in the exercise of journalism, with journalists regularly using tools and equipment that hold immense intrusive capabilities. While this surveillance capacity is partially regulated by local and international laws, deontological norms lack careful considerations. In the light of the challenges brought arising from the surveillance cultures, do journalists need to review their ethical guidelines for the use of surveillance technology? Is there an uncritical and "self-absolving" approach to its use? Should a debate within their community be stimulated through a bottom-up approach, and foster a new professional culture more aware of the opportunities, dangers and responsibilities connected to such technology? Interviews with journalists attempt to reveal common patterns on how journalists perceive the use of surveillance technology, outlining potential paths for self-regulatory deontological norms produced by the journalistic community itself.

New milestones of professional culture for the persons regulating relations in the field of fire safety

The article addresses the problem of bridging the divide between the present-day technological advancement, primarily in the field of normative legal and technical regulation of fire safety, and the qualification of persons, authorized to regulate relations in fire safety assurance (hereinafter — “Authorized persons”) in the context of transition of the state regulation of fire safety relations from an obsolete standard target model to a new analytical and scenario-based (risk-oriented) target model used to make decisions in the area of control over the safe condition of the technosphere in view of a sudden increase in the dynamics of sociocultural processes.The Education and Research Supervision Unit of the State Fire Academy of the EMERCOM of Russia (the Ministry for Civil Defense, Emergencies, and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters), responsible for the drafting of suggestions concerning the implementation of point 10, Minutes № 1 of the meeting of the workgroup of EMERCOM of Russia on May 20, 2019 “Regarding the arrangement of interaction with the management authorities of the institutional firefighting service of executive federal authorities and organizations”, has developed “The list of milestones of professional culture for the persons responsible for regulating relations in the field of fire safety for the period of transition from a standard target model to the risk model of controlling, supervisory, and authorization-related activities” (hereinafter — “the List”).This List represents a basic set of conceptual professional milestones, whose attainment enables authorized persons to re-focus their conscience from an obsolete standard paradigm, used to make decisions in the area of fire safety, to a new risk-oriented one.Given the focus of this article, it defines some, or the most significant, milestones of professional risk-oriented culture of authorized persons.