DEVELOPMENT OF CULTURE OF A TEACHER’S PERSONALITY IN THE CONTEXT OF MODERN SOCIO-HUMANITARIAN AND TECHNOLOGICAL PROBLEMS

Abstract

The relevance of the research is based on the need to form environmental competencies among specialists, which are the main characteristics in the development of teachers’ culture. The educational sector needs personnel who possess knowledge about nature, the laws of the structure of life, the norms of morality as a system that ensures their preservation and dissemination. Such need is associated with the inclusion of the subject of education in the social processes of society, demonstrating the human attitude to nature-transforming activities. In the study, the author raises a problem: in the new socio-economic conditions, what is “included” in the content of the individual culture; how the humanities solve theoretical and practical issues of the ecological development of the individual acting as the main productive force of society; how in the system of higher education, at the level of the coevolutionary approach, the education of humanistic principles, building a model of interaction between a man and nature takes place. The purpose of the study is to analyze the environmental competencies of university students, to substantiate the content line of education, to reorient it to the eco-humanitarian component. The novelty of the research is based on the resolution of the existing disunity in the humanities and natural science knowledge, in an attempt to form an ecological culture subsuming an ecocentric worldview, noospheric consciousness. The theoretical and methodological analysis of the study indicates the need to define environmental competencies as valuable knowledge necessary for the development of society and the individual as a whole. The obtained results draw the author’s attention to the essential characteristics of a specialist manifested in the education and upbringing of a spiritually creative person in the unity of his biological, intellectual, social and emotional nature. The research opens up opportunities for designing and transforming the education system towards spiritual, moral, ethical, legal and informational values that ensure the ecological development of the individual. Developing the main directions of education of the individual’s ecological culture in higher education system, the author concludes that due to the insufficiently formed theoretical and methodological base, this educational aspect remains not yet possible.