CONCEPTS OF THE TEACHER AND MENTOR: FROM THE ISLAMIC PEDAGOGICAL RENAISSANCE TO THE MODERNITY

Abstract

The thinkers of the era of the Islamic Pedagogical Renaissance created many works in which the problems of preparing a teacher and mentor were revealed. According to the thinkers of the past, a teacher is an educated, cultured person, a wise mentor, a creator of the child’s personality. These ideas are still relevant today. A modern teacher and mentor needs to increase an active life position, improve personal and professional qualities, develop a creative component, and form a personal brand. In order to form these competencies, it is proposed to use an innovative pedagogical workshop that contributes to the development of the teacher’s and mentor’s creative potential through the use of managerial and educational resources that meets the modern challenges of the education system.
 The purpose of the article is a historical and pedagogical analysis of the views on the problem of a teacher and mentor of the era of the Islamic pedagogical Renaissance and their actualization for modern education.
 Materials and methods. The sources were the studies of Arab, Persian scientists, as well as the published works of domestic and foreign authors who considered certain problems of the pedagogy of medieval Islam and modernity.
 Methods of historical and pedagogical research: comparative - historical monographic, biographical, problem-chronological. In addition, such general scientific theoretical (analysis, synthesis, systematization, classification, generalization, comparison, inductive and deductive methods) and bibliographic methods (annotation, reviewing, citation, abstraction, etc.).
 Results. Тhe pedagogical ideas of the thinkers of the era of the Islamic pedagogical Renaissance and modernity are systematized; organizational and pedagogical opportunities for the development of a personal brand of a modern teacher through the use of innovative creative workshops, territory of the Technopark were identified; the criteria and indicators of the effectiveness of the pedagogical activity of a teacher-mentor in modern educational practice are determined.
 The research materials can be used in the practice of the school by teachers and class teachers, in the system of higher professional education by students, undergraduates, graduate students and teachers of humanitarian secular and Muslim universities and colleges, practitioners interested in the history of Islamic pedagogy and education.