FEATURES OF FUTURE HISTORY AND LAW TEACHERS’ PROFESSIONAL TRAINING IN THE CONTEXT OF LEGAL CULTURE FORMATION

Abstract

The peculiarities of future' history and jurisprudence teachers' professional training in the context of legal culture formation were analysed, which allowed revealing the specifics of this training, its directions, functions and qualities of future teachers of history and law. It is established that the specificity of future history and law teachers' professional training is in carrying out the social order of society for the education of a citizen of the rule of law, he carries out legal education at all stages of the educational process in school and extracurricular activities. The content of students' professional training is determined. The general pedagogical and legal knowledge of teachers of history and law in comparison with the legal knowledge of teachers of general subjects and class leaders are system of knowledge about the theory of state and law, general and national history of the state, labour law, constitutional, environmental, criminal and family law; main categories and concepts of jurisprudence; constitutional foundations of state and social order, etc. The types of professional activity of the future history and law teacher have been revealed: organizational-managerial, diagnostic-prognostic, law educating, corrective developing, consultative-legal, preventive, and proper legal. The functions of the legal culture of the future history and law teacher have been distinguished: adaptive, cognitive-transformative, value-normative, legal, communicative, security-protective, diagnostic, organizational, regulatory, and managerial. Professionally significant qualities of future history and law teacher are the formation of legal knowledge, erudition, possession of various aspects of legal psychology of personality, high level of legal, methodical and pedagogical skills, mastery of the style of management of the children's collective, literacy of language, the general culture of the teacher, civil society, are distinguished. The personal qualities of future history and law teacher are benevolence, justice, moral responsibility, professional responsibility, empathy, erudition, ability to understand the student, teaching optimism, active citizenship, emotional, volitional qualities of the individual teachers, such as courage, determination, speed decision-making, self-control. We see the prospect of further research in revealing the process of formation of professionally significant and personal qualities of the future history and law teacher.