AXIOLOGICAL APPROACH TO THE FORMATION OF THE FUTURE TEACHER’S SPIRITUAL CULTURE

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of forming the spiritual culture of the future teacher, which is largely determined by the level of pedagogical training, the desire for self-improvement in terms of professional activity. Fundamental is the statement that the axiological approach to professional pedagogical training involves formation of students’ value orientations, which set the general direction of the interests and aspirations of the student’s personality, as well as understanding the values of spiritual culture, ensuring the integrity and spiritual maturity of an individual, striving for spiritual self-development and selfeducation. The nature of the teacher’s activity, their personal characteristics, values, life attitudes and conditions that they create define not only the level of knowledge learned by students according to educational standard, but also the nature of the relationship among the subjects of the educational process and the atmosphere in which pedagogical interaction takes place. The spiritual culture of the future teacher is understood as a complex, integrative quality, which is expressed by a high level of motivational and moral attitude to teaching, professional and ethical level, learning moral experience and various aspects of spiritual life, in the implementation of the acquired knowledge in everyday life and professional activity. The spiritual culture of the teacher is an indicator of personal and professional maturity and integrity of an individual; the basis for creating one’s own value environment, which will ensure the development of basic values of life and professional activity. Meaningfully interpreting the notion of spiritual culture, we focused on such components as spiritual knowledge, spiritual values and spiritual selfimprovement. Spiritual knowledge and values provide the formation of future teachers’ ability to independence, authentic value orientation, based on worldview reflections, experiences, assessments. The main means of spiritual self-improvement are faith, love, doing good and fighting the evil, creating freedom and responsibility, and work.