MENTORING: HISTORY AND MODERNITY

Abstract

The article is about the formation of such an institution as mentoring. The article traces the history of the formation of mentoring, starting from primitive society and from the history of the ancient world to the modern period. The authors generalize the historical line of mentoring development, which made it possible to see the directions of mentoring, highlight its functions, and present various points of view on the definition of the concept of “mentor”, “mentoring”, also in the article, the regularity of the actualization of mentoring is indicated, associated with a shortage of working personnel, and at the present stage with IT personnel, the electronic environment. The article also draws attention to the trends in the development of mentoring, which are designated as the didactic component of mentoring, pedagogical technologies for the development of mentoring, mentoring in the implementation of social functions in interaction with a variety of subjects, including those in need.