ETHNIC DESIGN FUTURE TECHNOLOGY TEACHER TRAINING IN THE PROCESS OF MAKING A KNOT DOLL OF POLTAVA REGION

On the basis of the categories ‘ethnic design,’ ‘technology teacher training,’ ‘a knot doll of Poltava region,’ ‘making a knot doll’, the article considers the importance of ethnic design future technology teacher training by means of making a knot doll of Poltava region. The content of the category ‘future technology teacher’s competence in the application of ethnic design in professional activities’ is stated; it is defined as a complex quality of the future teacher’s personality, aimed at perception, implementation, improvement, and development of innovative methods of presentation of the achievements of ethnic design in everyday practical professional activities in order to effectively and efficiently solve pedagogical problems. The article is aimed at expanding and deepening the issues of ethnic design teacher training, as well as researching the process of making a knot doll of Poltava region. Theoretical analysis of the problem in the professional activity of future technology teacher training has revealed that in recent decades in pedagogical theory and practice much attention has been paid to the artistic and aesthetic aspect of the specialist’s creative personality, mostly by means of decorative and applied arts; instead, research has only recently begun on the use of ethnic design in the process of future technology teacher training. An analysis of recent research and publications has shown that the issue of future technology teacher training by means of making a knot doll, which is an essential component of future technology teachers’ ethnic design skills and mastering the knowledge and skills of making a knot doll of Poltava region is a sign of skill. The study has concluded that the process of making a knot doll of Poltava region can be a tool of ethic design training; it acts as a complex type of creative activity at the intersection of several types of folk art and more broadly - at the intersection of pedagogy and psychology, ethnography and art history. Prospects for further research in the selected issue may be a thorough study of the role and place of the knot doll of Poltava region as a phenomenon of ethnic design and technological education.

Content Analysis of Technology Teacher Training Programmes of Some European Countries

The article deals with the problems of designing and updating study programmes during the integration process of the Lithuanian education system into the European education space. After the substantial change of general programmes of Basic education(2008) and Secondary education (2011) and seeking to fully involve self-development of general cultural, subject specific, generic and specific competencies which are necessary for teachers, it is important to update the study programmes.The problem of the research: what content of technology teacher training programme should be from the innovations point of view in order to meet the expectations of the changing society.The object of the research: the innovative content of the technology teacher training programme.The aim of the research: to highlight the innovative aspects of the content of technology teacher training programmes, having performed content analysis of technology teacher training programmes of the universities of Lithuania and some European countries.Research methods:analysis of scientific literature, analysis of the programmes of universities of some European countries which provide training for technology teachers as well as the analysis of the legal acts and strategic education policy documents of the European Union and the Republic of Lithuania.Updating of the study programme of technological education is a permanent process, which is conditioned by the following factors: market economy and the needs of information society, the fact that higher education is becoming mass, penetration of humanistic ideas into the content of education as well as the valid unified study quality assessment policy in the European Union.Taking into account the recommendations of the international experts’ group and considering international changes of analogous study programmes, the Committee of Technology Pedagogics Study Programmes of Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences in cooperation with the social partners carried out a research of opinions of students, graduates, university lecturers and employers on the study quality.They also performed a comprehensive analysis of the Bachelor’s degree study programmes of some Western European universities. The analysis revealed that theoretical models of study programmes design of different European universities have similarities and differences, which are determined by the philosophical aspect, humanistic ideas and the context of the national education policy. In the research the experience of five universities from the innovations point of view was used: the University of Helsinki (Finland), Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh (Great Britain), the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar (Portugal), and the University of Iceland.The following elective subjects have been included in the study programme of technology pedagogics: pedagogical ethics, sustainable development and social welfare, educational creative projects, family health education, health promoting nutrition education, visualization of technology education, eco creations, national and global food culture, interior design, technology education for special needs students, art therapy, development of leadership competencies, formation of study archives. The hidden curriculum of the study programme of technology pedagogics is ethnic culture, ecology, project activities.