Ethno Culture As An Element Of The Teacher’s Professional Culture

Abstract

Our society is characterized by a contradiction between dynamically changing information and the actual cultural level of higher educational institutions graduates and the ability to have a professional competence level allowing to be a real professional and specialist. The contradiction makes it necessary to solve the problem of formation of professional culture as the main condition of an individual successful activity. Professional culture represents a complex phenomenon. It has many different components in its structure. One of them is ethno culture that is not only important but also necessary for an individual’s activity in conditions of multinational society. The paper is aimed at studying the role of ethnic component in professional culture structure and its importance for future specialists in education field. The author gives a short review on ethno pedagogics development, considers the problem of ethno cultural competence formation, and presents systematic, synergetic,competence-based and technological approaches as the methodological base of research, and gives some ideas about experimental research. Special attention is paid to ethno cultural competence as a component of professional culture of a future specialist. The paper gives the author’s ideas about the role of ethno culture in specialist’s training. The changes in ethno cultural competence level as a result of experimental work are shown. This article can be interesting for specialists in education, pedagogical sciences, and ethno pedagogics.