This study identifies and characterizes the features of the development of professional subjectivity
of a future teacher in higher education. The research methodology is based on systemic and
interdisciplinary approaches to education, poly-subject, object-subject, and environmental
approaches. The author used theoretical methods (analysis, concretization and systematization
of the characteristics of the teacher’s subjectivity as a teacher in the indicated projections) and
empirical methods (observation; focus groups with students of a pedagogical university studying
at different levels and at different courses; methodology “I and others” by I. Nikolaeva). The study
involved teachers of the Department of Social Pedagogy and students (n=52) of the Voronezh State
Pedagogical University. It found that one of the leading differences in the subjective position of a
teacher as educator is the need to integrate personal and professional subjectivity. This relies on
coordination, and subsequently harmonizes individually significant and accepted value attitudes,
cultural and subcultural preferences, norms and requirements. An attempt is made to analyze the
projections of the teacher as an educator: into the socio-pedagogical environment – the educator as
a sociocultural role and status; into a professional environment – as a separate professional function;
into a personal environment – as a personal and professional attitude and position, which made it
possible to clarify the peculiarities of the formation of professional subjectivity in the context of the
development of the selected projections by the future teacher as an educator. The results confirm
the need to work with the reference area of students as a condition for the success of professional
education at the university, complementing the experience of solving the problems of self-education
and education by a future teacher.
Keyword(s) : subjectivity
Philosophical ideas of postmodernism and their impact on the education system in Russia and the USA
The modern education system requires flexibility, plasticity, continuity and resistance to crises
and risks. This study examines the main features and requirements of the modern socio-cultural
situation. It identifies strategies and directions in contemporary education based on the ideas of
postmodernism. Using conceptual analysis of the influence of postmodern ideas on the education
systems of Russia and the United States it compares and contrasts the strategies and trends
identified. The results can serve as a basis for further research in the field of comparative pedagogy
and philosophy of education, in the context of the influence of postmodern ideas on education,
reflecting the ‘spirit of the time’.
Using essays as a form of final control in working with undergraduates
Relevance of the research is determined by development of Master’s Degree Programs in Russian universitie, it requires profound changes in educational content and methods. This work is aimed at presentation of experience in approbation of essay as a form of exam in education of 20 students of Master Program “Preschool education”. The incomplete sentences technique as a data-gathering tool was applied after the exam. According to the results, creating an essay contributes to generalization and understanding, comprehension of the problem information, makes cognitive and metacognitive processes more active. This form of final control gives psychological comfort, creates a situation of success. It strengthens needs for autonomy, competence, relat-edness, which are sources of internal motivation as the basis of subjectness and self-development tendency. The material could be useful for university lecturers.