FORMATION OF TOPICAL ACADEMIC VALUES IN FUTURE EDUCATORS IN THE CONTEXT OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN UKRAINE

Abstract

The article deals with the issue of development of the modern educational environment of Ukraine in the context of its ethical activity through the formation of topical academic values. It involves both general theory and practice of changes in educational establishments, of universal values, as well as the formation of specific academic values that are relevant for providing effective educational environment in modern higher educational, in particular pedagogical, establishments. Practice and experience testify that the importance of ethical activity in the educational environment in a higher educational establishment is determined by the changes in the model of a modern educational institution where the situation of value collisions occurs regularly. The article describes one of the theoretical models of the development of a higher educational establishment along with the outline of the reasons for its ineffective implementation. The study determines the basic factors in formation of the student's personality as a bearer of universal values, in particular academic ones. The results of the theoretical and empirical research regarding the state and conditions for the formation of personal and academic values of a future specialist with the help of pedagogical tools are presented. With the help of empirical data, the statement about the limited opportunities of educational process towards the formation of students’ personal values, both professional and socially significant, is explained. The relation between the concepts "responsibility of profession" and "responsibility of a person" is indicated. Based on the achievements of international and domestic scientists, philosophers and educators in the sphere of anthropological and socio-cultural studies, the author identifies the phenomena of honor and responsibility as the priority and universal values, which influence the efficiency and quality of the activity accomplished by a modern higher educational establishment and the development of educational and scientific environment in general. The emphasis is put on the key aspects of honor, which influence the personality formation and development of a future specialist. The personal honor, existentialist by its essence and nature, which serves as the basis for the formation of professional honor, is called system- forming measure.