Spirituality of a Personality: Methodology, Theory and Practice

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Authors: O. O. Andryushchenko

The article reveals the relevance of the study of the problem research of development of reflexive skills of primary school teachers at the present stage of reforming the national educational system. On the basis of analyses of the scientifical researches and publications the content of the concept of "pedagogical conditions" is determined. It has been found that they: 1) act as an integral part of the pedagogical system; 2) are external and internal, subjective and objective, necessary and sufficient circumstances in which a positive educational environment arises, exists and develops; 3) relate to the goals, principles, content, methods, forms of the process of learning, education and development; 4) ensure the effectiveness of the educational process. The complex of pedagogical conditions, which are intended to ensure the success of the process of development of reflexive skills of elementary school teachers in the system of postgraduate education, is defined and substantiated, namely 1) the development of motivation and value attitude in the elementary school teachers to exercise reflective activity; 2) updating the content of education: directing the educational process to the development of reflexive skills of primary school teachers in the system of postgraduate pedagogical education; 3) creating a reflective environment in postgraduate education institutions; 4) introduction of reflexive teaching methods into the practice of the educational process of postgraduate education. The prospects for further researches in the study of the identified problem are outlined.

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Authors: N. O. Barvina

The article is devoted to the artistic and aesthetic potential of O. Wilde’s literary heritage for upbringing а comprehensively developed, educated personality. The role of the writer’s fairy tales in the process of the artistic and aesthetic students’ needs formation in the area of university drama studio is considered. The use of the literary works artistic and aesthetic potential is proved to be the necessary condition for the upbringing and comprehensive development of a young person in the modern university environment. Student drama studio is shown to be the place where the process of theatrical education occurs, it being possible through the use of arts and belles-lettres artistic-aesthetic potential. The importance of the fairy tales artistic potential use in the student drama studio performances is highlighted. The relevance of the fairy tale genre main artistic tools and techniques in the theatrical environment is stressed. O. Wilde’s literary style and artistic method peculiarities are analyzed. His role as the most famous representative of aestheticism in literature is mentioned. The basic aesthetic theses in the arts and real life as well as their practical implementation in the student drama studio performances are highlighted. The appropriate use of O. Wilde’s fairy tales artistic and aesthetic potential during the extracurricular activities in the conditions of student drama studio is noticed. It is proved that through the use of O. Wilde’s literary fairy tales artistic and aesthetic potential in the university area comprehensive art and aesthetic exploration of the world occurs.

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Authors: О. А. Biletskyi, O. V. Minaeva

Considering the major difficulties in modern education industry, such as the depreciation of the universal and national ideals, the loss of authority of the family, the authors make an attempt to contact the positive historical and pedagogical experience and to pay attention to the solution of these problems via religious morality, which has taken a worthy place in public education in pre-revolutionary Ukraine. The article analyzes the development of parochial primary schools in Ekaterinoslav gubernia in the second half of the XIX – early XX century; it analyses changes in the regulatory and legislative acts, reflecting policy of the government of the Russian Empire, and the Holy Synod, for the period 1808–1900; with matching and processing of Zemstvo institutions and statistical document lists the educational institutions in the postreform period determined the content of curricula and programs of parish schools; the position of authoritative teachers of the Democrats in the postreform period (K. Ushinskiy, N. Pirogov, S. Rachinskiy), proving the importance of education on the basis of Orthodox ethics; reflected the ambiguity of relations in education between the Ekaterinoslav diocese and provincial agencies; through the analysis determined the main vector of social and pedagogical targetting, expressed in the dissemination of free elementary education was provided by Church schools Ekaterinoslav province, and the creation of a moral and spiritual Foundation that provided the Orthodox Faith.

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Authors: K. B. Hnatyk

In the article the necessity of organization of interdisciplinary cooperation is reasonable for preparation of future foreign language bachelors as a condition of the effective forming of students’ professional identity in this area. It is set that interdisciplinary cooperation is based on integration of maintening few disciplines. The subject spheres and methodological tools are defined and scientifically grounded in the article. Using these principles educational results can be modified. Interdisciplinary cooperation envisages taking into account of various connections, including didactics potentials studied by the future bachelors. The analysis of curricula and course programmes has shown that there are some principles related to interdisciplinary cooperation defined in educational disciplines in bachelor’s programme. The foreign language (English) is an outlined form of interdisciplinary cooperation, integrated as a basic discipline that is studied by the future bachelors. Generally the effective way of forming the future bachelors’ professional identity in foreign language is applying interdisciplinary cooperation, but not only in one discipline. Therefore in the process of students’ professional preparation it is necessary to use interdisciplinary approach provided by interdisciplinary cooperation. It is underlined that the use of interdisciplinary connections will assist forming future bachelors’ professional identity in foreign language teaching. It is a key factor to comprehend and understand students’ difficulties and integral perception in their surroundings.

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Authors: M. R. Demianchuk

The article generalizes the essence of components, criteria, indicators and levels of formation of professional competence of future junior specialists in nursing. It has been established that the criterion of motivational-valuable component is motivational-axiological one with such indicators: student’s motivation to professional formation and growth in the process of study at medical college; awareness of the need for a high level of professional competence as an actual value at the present stage of development of health care field; rising interest to updating various aspects of vocational training in medical college that meet modern requirements for junior specialists in nursing. Formation of theoretical-cognitive component is determined by the knowledge criterion and indicators: formation of student’s knowledge from disciplines, which directly reflect the essence of nursing; availability of knowledge regarding the specifics of interaction of nursing stuff at different levels of professional relationships; theoretical preparedness of students to professional communication. Formation of practical-functional components is determined by the praxiological-active criterion and the following indicators: ability to use knowledge of professional disciplines in the process of performing manipulative actions in quasi-professional situations; ability to organize optimal professional interaction in simulated situation; ability to integrate results of vocational training in medical college into practice. Personal-developmental component, the main criterion of which is personal-acmeological, is determined by indicators: ability of medical college students to professional reflection in order to identify major stakes (acme) of professional growth; effectiveness of self-education activities; expanding professional outlook based on familiarity with modern tendencies in development of medical industry and, in particular, nursing. Quantitative and qualitative display of formation of all components of the investigated professional competence is determined by four levels: high, sufficient, satisfactory and low.

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Authors: M. A. Kasych

The article considers the problem of moral and ethical education of children, the education of a sense of kindness in them. The concept of kindness, as the highest, absolute universal value, is considered. The author proposes to complete the process of education using the art of literature. The article substantiates the use of fairy tales in order to foster a sense of kindness, since a fairy tale is a genre of literature with high didactic potential. The concept of fairy-tale therapy as a kind of psychological correction is considered. The author emphasizes on the preference of using the literary fairy tale to folk one for the purpose of moral and ethical upbringing. The author’s fairy tale inherits from folklore a clear division of the heroes into positive and negative, but the heroes in the author’s works are no longer types of folk tales, but are more complex characters, and the plots are not reduced to traditional schemes. Therefore, the reader’s value system is becoming more and more complex and rich, estimates are becoming less categorical, and ideas about a person are becoming many-sided. The article suggests using the literary tales of Oscar Wild, since they are dominated by reflections on the relationship between good, evil and beauty, they are distinguished by incredible imagination and humanistic mood. The author gives examples of assignments to the literary tales of Oscar Wilde, which are designed to help children adjust their behavior, develop critical and creative thinking, aesthetic tastes. The key idea of the article is the process of developing a sense of kindness in the context of aesthetic education.

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Authors: O. I. Kozmenko

Last years the problem of postsecondary student success has attracted the attention of US educators and has encouraged them to look for more effective ways to solve it. The effectiveness the institution is characterized by the level of retention and student success. Community colleges are working to improve the quality of education, but in their work they face a number of problems that are difficult to overcome on their own. Since 2010 a network of centers has been appearing in the United States of America to help community colleges to work efficiently and solve the problems of retention and student success. The work and functions of the Student Success Centers is described in this article. It was shown that the Student Success Center Network includes 16 statewide Student Success Centers, which support community colleges’ efforts to develop student-centered pathways and increase student completion rates. The Network provides opportunities for Centers to learn from one another’s experiences. It also shares information about innovations at institutions nationwide so more colleges can implement and scale promising practices. Each Center coordinates the efforts of educators and the implementation of new initiatives within a state and represents their work at the federal level. The Centers provide coherence, create a statewide framework of action, or a lens through which colleges focus their work and integrate their student success efforts; connect policy and practice: identify and pursue state and system policy changes
that support the institutional changes necessary to increase student completion; convene: create time and space for faculty and staff 
to connect and to discuss strategy and implementation and identify problems common to multiple colleges and help colleges work together to address them; improve data capacity and promote research and knowledge development. The Centers also see fundraising as a key priority, to bring new initiatives and evidence-based innovations
to the colleges and scale them across the state. Recently, the Centers have been providing expert assistance to colleges in the implementation of the large-scale educational reform “Guided pathways”. Thus, the work of these centers is useful and quite effective in achieving student success. The use of such foreign experience can contribute to improving the quality of education in Ukraine.

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Authors: O. Marchuk

The main forms of up-bringing and methods of teaching used by teachers and activists of public associations of educational and cultural institutions in Volyn (the XIXth - first half of the XXth century) are analyzed in the article. It is explained that during the independence of Ukraine there is a need to reform the education system. It has been noted that for centuries the network of various educational institutions, public and religious societies has been operating at the territory of Volyn whose members have developed pedagogical experience in the process of teaching and upbringing. It is explained that the problems of education in Volyn were investigated in the scientific works of N. Bovsunovskaya, S. Brychok, S. Kolyadenko, O. Kushpetyuk. The author stated that the purpose of the article is to analyze the basic forms and methods of education and upbringing of children and youth in educational and cultural institutions of Volyn province and Volyn voivodship and to develop recommendations for their creative using in Ukrainian institutions. In the article the definitions of "study", "education", "education", "form", «method» from the "Ukrainian Pedagogical Encyclopedic Dictionary" by S. Goncharenko are presented. The definition of "forms and methods of teaching and upbringing of children and youth in educational and cultural institutions" is given as the harmonized process of interaction of teachers, activists of public (religious) societies with the young generation with the purpose of providing knowledge, expanding the scientific world, education of values, development of natural inclinations and abilities of the person for its realization in society. According to the analysis of archival documents it is noted that the teachers had widely used individual, group, frontal, collective, classroom and extracurricular, school and extra-curricular forms of teaching. Based on the analysis of archival sources about the organization of the process of education and upbringing of children and young people it was found that among the methods of education the most common were informative, explanatory and illustrative kinds of studying, the methods of up-bringing were directed towards forming the thinking person who posesses moral, ethical and Christian virtues. The specific examples illustrate the using of a large number of teaching and training techniques are given. Recommendations for the using of the pedagogical experience of the Volyn educators in the institutions of today are given.

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Authors: М. I. Levrints (Lőrincz)

The national education policy of the USA is articulated at the state level, however, the sphere of higher education is not regulated or controlled by the Congress and is not reflected in the “United States Code”, with the exception of certain social aspects. Nevertheless, the national educational vector is predetermined by the federal government, which adopts the relevant legislation, the main being the “Higher Education Opportunity Act”. Owing to decentralization as a guiding principle of higher education, its regulation falls within the competence of the states and municipalities. American establishments of higher education are endowed with a varying degree of autonomy, ranging from partially autonomous to completely independent status of the government. The US Department of Education is not empowered to control the education system with the real authority belonging to the State Departments of Education. Meanwhile, the federal government attempts to determine the state of affairs in the education sector by providing financial support. The balance between the state and public sphere of influence on teacher education is achieved due to independent professional organizations. In the USA there is no national language policy or law regulating the use and study of foreign languages, but some of its relevant issues are addressed in by-laws, projects, governmental initiatives, and, above all, by numerous programs aimed at promoting foreign language education. Some of the salient tasks of the American education policy are the enhancement of the quality of education, effectiveness and quality of teaching, as well as the popularization of the foreign language education.

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Authors: T. V. Potapchuk

The article deals with the scientific researches on the problem of formation of aesthetic competence of the future teachers of fine art. It is noted that the authors of modern psychological and pedagogical research allocate competencies to basic (leading, key, universal) and special (specific, subject-professional), although the boundaries between them are rather conditional. In addition to subject specific knowledge and methods of action in a highly specialized activity, any type of competence necessarily includes universal human qualities and abilities, which are independent of their field of expression. These include, for example, initiative, the ability to organize activities (own or other people's), the ability to adapt to new non-standard situations, the willingness to critically analyze and adequately evaluate the results of activities not only as significant for themselves, but as having consequences for others. The above attributes of general competence are based not only on the knowledge and skills in a particular field, but on the value priorities of the individual and the characteristics of his mental experience. The purpose of the article is to theoretically substantiate the key concepts of "competence", "aesthetic competence", "competence". Methods: analysis, systematization and generalization of philosophical, sociological and psychological-pedagogical literature in order to find out the state of development of the problem under study and to clarify the conceptual apparatus. The concept of "competence" in the broad sense of the word means perfect knowledge of their business, the nature of the work being performed, complex relationships, phenomena and processes, possible ways and means of achieving the stated goals. The content of competence includes the level of basic and special education, work experience, ability to accumulate a wide life and professional experience, knowledge of the possible consequences of a specific way of influencing the individual. It is proved that systematic and purposeful acquaintance with the basics of the analysis of works of fine arts will contribute to the formation in the aesthetic competence of future teachers of fine art to reveal in an accessible form their vision of content and ideas, as well as to enrich their ideas about the various development of a variety of aesthetics.

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Authors: L. А. Rudenko

The article is devoted to the problem of future professional's readiness for professional cooperation. It is emphasized that interaction is both a process and a result. The main methodological approaches to the problem of professional interaction are listed: synergistic, axiological, competent, active, etc. The level of urgency of the problem of the ability of a specialist border guard to professional interaction is analyzed. Due to the analysis of scientific psycho-pedagogical and philosophical literature it is proved that the phenomenon of professional interaction has not been studied in the field of higher military education. Through the analysis of the scientific work of border guards and the use of a systematic approach, a system of training future border guards for professional interaction was built. The contents of the basic elements of such a system (pedagogical conditions, subjects and objects, etc.) are presented and disclosed. The vertical and horizontal structures of the mentioned system are characterized. The important characteristics of the system of training officers-border guards for professional interaction are listed: control and admission of vehicles and persons; engineering and technical equipment of the border, organization and implementation of border control; stopping the illegal movement of vehicles and persons across the state border; coherence of activities with military units and law enforcement institutions on border protection; implementation of operational intelligence activities; implementation of information-analytical and search-and-search procedures for ensuring the integrity of state borders; participation in counteracting criminal acts of various kinds.

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Authors: V. M. Synyshyna

The article deals with the conceptual basis of scientific and methodical system of vocational training of future practical psychologists in the institutions of higher education. The basic tendencies of development of modern psychological education have been specified, in particular: orientation of educational institutions on improving the quality specialists’ training; change in target orientation of the vocational training system on the formation of competencies; transition from mass, collective forms of student’s study to individual ones, to the development of creative skills on the basis of self-education, self-development, self-improvement; recognition of the priority of the psychological education humanistic orientation; appeal to scientific strategies of creative psychology and innovative pedagogy on the basis of national and international scientific and pedagogical heritage. The essence of basic regularities of training of future practical psychologists in the institutions of higher education has been revealed. Regularity as an objectively existing, essential, significant, repeatable connection of phenomena and processes, reflects the diversity of their interactions and relationships. It has been proved that modern tendencies and regularities of training of practical psychologists are reflected in the implementation of the relevant principles. For more effective and productive realization of the educational process, directed to the formation of professional competence of future practical psychologists in the process of vocational training, the necessary is to take into account some system-forming pedagogical principles, which together create the preconditions for future practical psychologists to be constantly in personal and professional development. Defining and taking into account these tendencies, regularities and principles in the process of vocational training of future practical psychologists contributes to increasing the effectiveness of the formation of their professional competence.

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Authors: K. Yu. Tushko

The article is devoted to the problems of modernization of social fundamental structures of Ukrainian society. Among the many problems of Ukrainian society, the difficulties of reforming the educational system of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine were singled out. For the purpose of revealing the purpose of the article, the corresponding scientific pedagogical literature, both domestic and foreign authorship, was analysed. Most scientific sources belong to foreign scientists, as the Western scientific field is considered to be fundamental to the method of risk analysis. It is emphasized that Ukrainian teachers do not have a method of teaching subjects that are aimed at mastering the method of risk analysis. The main content of this article presents material on the nature of the risk analysis method, and partly on the historical aspects of its occurrence. The significance and peculiarities of the application of the method of risk analysis in the professional training of specialists in the armies of the USA, Great Britain, Switzerland, Germany are analysed. The author made an attempt to reveal the importance of the method of risk analysis abroad, in order to develop pedagogical bases for its further active use in Ukraine, in educational institutions of both military and law enforcement agencies. The conducted research is the basis for teaching such a course as "Analysis and Risk Assessment" for third-year students of the specialty "State Border Security". The author has highlighted those areas of pedagogical research that may be relevant in the proposed problem. An analysis of the content and genesis of the risk analysis method will enable representatives of the scientific and pedagogical staff of the Border Guard Academy to create appropriate curricula for the Risk Analysis and Assessment discipline.

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Authors: K. Yo. Fodor

The article substantiates the essence of the communication process, identifies its main components and specifies conditions of communication. It is summarized that in the process of communicative interaction, communicators use a set of language tools to organize messaging during verbal interaction (communication) that is called verbal (language) code. While using a language code, communicators are required to be aware of a variety of different types of speech activities: listening and speaking, which are used in oral communication, and reading and writing - in written communication. In the article the essence of ways to deal with a communicative partner (cooperation, partnership, domination, manipulation, conflict) is revealed, and the expedience of using interactive technologies is emphasized as the optimal learning environment in the process of preparing future bachelors of arts in foreign languages to acquire the skills to organize an effective communication process. It is established that a communicative act is a conceptually and structurally organized communicative activity within the limits of verbal contact of speakers, in which subject-sign carrier is a discourse based on a certain situation. The actuality of applying interactive pedagogical technologies in the process of professional training of future linguists is specified using simulated situations (fragments of objectively existing reality, which may include verbal action), in which students will gain practical experience of organizing optimal communication interaction. It is found that in order to participate in such situations students need to activate not only speech but also mental activity. In the article the content of category of discourse is analyzed as a verbalized speech-thinking activity of communicants within the framework of verbal contact related to cognition, comprehension and presentation of the world by the speaker (addresser) and comprehension of his linguistic picture of the world by the listener (addresee).

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Authors: O. V. Tsybulska

А definitive analysis of distinguished basic concepts in the field of health care culture is carried out, their interpretation is represented in the scientific literature. The essence of health in the system of pedagogical categories is considered as an important concept of the concept of education, dynamic, holistic formation, manifested at different levels of life: somatic, mental, moral, spiritual. It is important to take into account the different psychological and pedagogical approaches to understanding the essence of this unique phenomenon in order to determine the characteristics of the process of fostering a culture of personal health. The most common is the understanding of the term "culture" as a set of socially acquired ideas, values, customs, traditions, norms of behaviour through which people organize their activities and pass them on from generation to generation. It is stated that the semantic characteristics of basic concepts of the problem of culture of health saving are successfully introduced into the system of pedagogical categories; analysed concepts are widely used in pedagogical theory and practice, representing the essence of the basic processes associated with the preservation, strengthening and formation of the phenomenon under study. A definitive analysis of the essential characteristics of the basic concepts of the problem of health culture, represented in scientific sources, testifies to their widespread use in pedagogical theory and practice, since they reflect the basic processes related to the preservation, strengthening and formation of the investigated phenomenon. It is determined that the education of the younger generation of citizens with sustainable motivation for a healthy and creative life requires the development of scientific and practical recommendations, technologies, teacher's readiness to cultivate a culture of health care in the educational process, from the early school age.