LEGAL PRINCIPLES FOR DEMOCRATIZATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE FUTURE TEACHER OF ENGLISH

Abstract

Democratization of consciousness in the future teacher is manifested in aspirations to take into account his individual characteristics, national traditions, today’s social needs, to ensure student development and upbringing, to contribute to the renewal of society and education. Legal bases for this process refer first of all to the teacher’s legal competence. Therefore, the purpose of the article is to determine content lines and substantiate pedagogical possibilities of the legal competence in the future teacher of English in order to ensure the democratization of his consciousness. The following research methods have been used for this purpose: general scientific, empirical, functional-structural, holistic-integrative and prognostic. The content lines in the development of legal competence in the future teacher of English are as follows: positive motivation for democratization of this process, basic teacher training on legal aspects, meeting the needs for self-fulfilment and performing professional activity in accordance with the rule of law, broadening the experience of public behaviour which exposes pedagogical possibilities of the teacher legal competence. The identified content lines and factors of ensuring positive motivation for democratization of pedagogical education (personality orientation of this process, taking into account individual characteristics and stimulation of the corresponding behaviour) help to define the important result of teacher training – teacher’s democratic consciousness, which presupposes the use of principles of legality and respect for the rights of others in various situations. In practical life, it is embodied while doing teaching practice, learning regulatory documents, establishing partnership relations between the participants of the educational process. Legal competence of a teacher helps to qualitatively organize one’s own professional activity according to the norms of law, to gain more civic experience, to maintain connection with the European direction of professional improvement.