Abstract

The study concerns the phenomenon of a “professional teacher”, its social status, personal qualities and competences within the historical context. The authors apply the integration of philosophical, psychological, historical-pedagogical and pedagogical knowledge as such to understand the modern model of a teacher. The historical context as a complex of social conditions of pedagogical insights, concepts and assumptions of an ideal teacher and its professional training formed methodological fundamentals of the study dealing with the image of a teacher of the past, present and future. To define the mission of a teacher within the society and its professional characteristics the study analyzes beliefs, activities and works of educators, scientists, classic teachers and modern representatives of pedagogical science and educational practice. Defining the phenomenon of a “teacher”, the authors consider it through the unique nature of professional activity, personal qualities, compliance to public expectations and demands.

Highlights

  • The social role of a teacher is unexceptionally considered one of the priority fields in various sciences

  • There is a need for multidimensional analysis related to the study of social conditions and features of the present era to understand an ideal image of a teacher continuously trying to form any progress-oriented society

  • As some researchers note, modern society is characterized by certain elimination of a pedagogical value, the pedagogical profession as such, loss of a teacher’s cult, degradation of spiritual teacherstudent relations

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Introduction

The social role of a teacher is unexceptionally considered one of the priority fields in various sciences. The study of an image of an effective teacher, its public mission and social responsibility gains special attention during the modern period of educational development, which is characterized by substantial modernization and reforms.

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