Spiritual and moral values in the professional culture of a modern teacher

Abstract

The article presents the results of a theoretical analysis of the importance of spiritual and moral values in the professional activity of a modern Russian teacher of a general education organization. General education as an important social institution performs the functions of reproduction of spiritual and moral values of the younger generation. We substantiated the relevance and theoretical model of the study of the content of the teacher’s professional culture, spiritual, and moral values as the basis of its formation (it is based on a brief analysis of the publications of the science-intensive Scopus database). In the empirical part of the study, the developed theoretical model is tested on the example of the pedagogical community of the South of Russia (Stavropol Krai). The survey of the pedagogical community is organized in electronic form. 153 teachers of educational organizations of Stavropol Krai were invited to participate and took part in expert assessments. The obtained research data are used in improving the process of formation of spiritual and moral values in the process of professional training and advanced training of teachers. We formed strategic approaches in preparing the pedagogical community for the challenges in accordance with the demand of modern Russian society for the transformation of educational work and teachers’ values.