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Рsychological Characteristics of Pedagogical Activity of Scientists
Authors: Elena A. Volodarskaya
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The article reveals the scientist’s competences necessary for pedagogical activity. The focus of attention is shifted to the ratio of the requirements for a successful teacher and the didactic potential of scientific activity. It is suggested that in the context of the integration of science and education, the research capital of a scientist is in demand in the educational space.
Appeal to pedagogical abilities, important for the success of the teacher, allows us to highlight some actual requirements for the scientist.
Firstly, they are communicative abilities, by which are meant the ability to communicate, the ability to find an approach to students, to build trustful dialogue. The problem of scientific communication is traditional for socio-psychological study. This implies the development of a communicative skill, the skills of persuasive impact, the resolution of conflicts within the negotiation process. These competences are mostly new to the traditional scientist.
Secondly, they are didactic abilities that make it possible to intelligently present the knowledge, stimulate interest in the subject, stimulate students 'cognitive activity, the ability to organize students' independent work, and form their need for independent knowledge acquisition.
Our research shows that in a situation where it is necessary to obtain reliable information about science, respondents are more likely to trust a scientist who has his own experience of research than a journalist specializing in scientific journalism.
In this connection, the professionally important quality of the scientist becomes his ability to simply and clearly tell about the complex, adapt, but not to emasculate the essence of objective activity. It is important to be able to attract, interest the younger generation. It is important not only erudition and intelligence, but also enthusiasm, personal charisma, leadership qualities.
Thirdly, the academic pedagogical abilities of scientists, that is, the abilities for the corresponding field of science, the knowledge of the subject taught, not only in the volume of the training course, but much wider and deeper are the aspect of the necessary pedagogical competencies of scientists. Knowledge is updated very quickly. Modern education involves not memorizing a large body of facts, rules and formulas. After all, almost any information can be quickly and fairly fully received in the free Internet access. It is important to know what to look for, how to analyze, how to adapt the knowledge acquired in relation to a specific task, how to formulate your own opinion with a multiplicity of research approaches and theoretical positions.
In this case, the emphasis is necessarily shifted to the fundamentalization of the training of young graduates of universities. Fundamentalization of education is a new challenge and resource for the development of a knowledge-based society.
Fourthly, pedagogical abilities are related to the research orientation of the teacher, with his need and ability to conduct his own research work.
First, it is important to understand clearly the task posed, to describe the initial principles and rules, to build possible options for scientific research. A scientist with creative thinking can help students and students in clarifying the requirements that arise in front of them not only in the educational space, but also in the professional way as a whole.
Fifth, among the pedagogical abilities, the pedagogical imagination is distinguished, presupposing the ability to project and predict the development of the student's actions. The scientist is always focused on the future, his knowledge and in a certain part – the design, manifested in the good development of creative imagination, intuition. A substantial component of scientific activity is manifested in the study of what has not yet been. The development of imagination, anticipation, prediction is a very important characteristic of a modern specialist. The scientist can contribute to the development of this quality in the process of pedagogical interaction with students.
Characteristics of the current social situation are rapidity, multidimensionality, radical changes, the permanence of which sees the new reality of social relations. The ability to perceive changes not as a threat but as a source of personal development and the possibility of self-realization is an important competence that contributes to the continuation of social changes from the situation of increasing anxiety and stress. The scientist by the nature of his activity is aimed at finding a new, unexplored. Productivity and scientific effectiveness are determined by the skills and abilities to see the unusual in the familiar. In this regard, the presence of creative thinking will help to use it in the pedagogical process, as well as develop it in students.
It can be concluded that modern education and society as a whole formed a new request to science and scientists, consisting in the development of their respective pedagogical competences.