Lecturer's Image in Students’ Opinion as College Lecturer's Image Component

Abstract

The goal of the research is directed at the study of the image of the lecturer as a component part of a college lecturer. The methodical basis of the research is an aggregate of methods and techniques, adapted to the objectives of the research: project mini essay “My lecturer as I would like him to be”, method of inter personal diagnosis by T. Liri; specially designed questionnaire. 120 students of the 2nd and 3rd year of Mangystau power engineering college (Aktau city, Mangystau region) participated in the research. Two groups of respondents were formed: 60 students from those who lived in the country side area and 60 students from the city. As a result we have found out that students are characteristic of complexity and realism of the college lecturer's image. The image of a modern lecturer according to students’ opinion, those who came from the countryside includes role determination of college lecturer profession. They include evaluative characteristics but they are mostly positive ones. They see the lecturer close to students and possess represented professionally important qualities. As for city students perception, they are characteristic of critical image of the lecturer, but the critics does not have antipathetic expression, but mostly constructive dissatisfaction with the image of a college lecturer. In countryside students’ perception there is mostly a positive image of a modern college lecturer. According to their opinion, modern lecturer is more democratic, creative, empathetic and understanding. For students living in the city the image of a modern lecturer is less positive, they see him conservative, imperious and authoritarian. Changing social economic and political situation in the Republic of Kazakhstan involved changes both in the lives of social groups and in the life of an individual. Turn to the personality as the center of the social system has predetermined the growth of human individuality significance.