ETHNIC AND CULTURAL SPECIFICS OF VALUABLE HIERARCHY OF TEACHERS AS AGENTS OF SOCIALIZATION

Abstract

The paper focuses on the role of the teacher as the intermediary between students and culture providing broadcast of social values. In this context it is important to study and develop teachers‘ system of values in the transit societies which are characterized by anomy and violation of mechanisms of trans-generative transfer of values. The results of the cross-cultural research of the features of valuable hierarchy of teachers conducted inRussia,Ukraine,ItalyandPolandare given. On the basis of the study it is concluded that the differences in value hierarchies are based on objective social and economic conditions that set the context of teachers‘ personal development, mediating the formation of their value preferences. Value orientations of teachers, in turn, largely determine the formation of value orientations of students in the process of socialization. With respect to the obtained data, the authors substantiate the recommendations about axiologization of the process of professional education aimed at supporting the development of the humanistic system of value orientations of future teachers as agents of socialization of the new generation.

Keywords

• culture, values, socialization, youth, teachers