Педагогические науки / 2. Проблемы подготовки специалистов

        Romanov V.A. 1, Egorov A.I. 1, Mitrokhinа S.V.1, Kormakova V.N.2             

1Tula Leo Tolstoy State Pedagogical University, Russia

2Belgorod State National Research University, Russia

 

DEVELOPMENT OF CONFLICTOLOGICAL COMPETENCE 

IN FUTURE TEACHERS: MODERN APPROACH

Absence of conflicts is one of the fundamental categories in the system of the universal human values; this category stipulates person’s humanistic attitude to the world, his conscientious recognition of other people’s rights and freedoms irrespective of their particular features, readiness for the dialogue and cooperation in different situations of interaction. Present-day society displays great demand for the person who respects the views, opinions and behavior of other people, and it raises the question before modern domestic educational system to thoroughly investigate and generalize psychological, pedagogical and methodological problems connected with conflictological competence of future teachers [1; 3].

Modern conflictological paradigm understands conflict as an objective phenomenon of social interaction in the form of extreme aggravation of natural contradictions in a society. 

Higher educational institutions are not exceptions in this respect. Objective character of conflicts in these institutions is determined, to our mind, by the very nature of educational process, which is propelled by the objective contradictions, and this, in its turn, makes the conflicts inevitable, and conflict control becomes the most important constituent of the whole system of higher education institutions control [2; 5].

In our opinion, external factors which increase conflict probability in the teaching process are not social and economic but rather psychological. They lead to the high level tension in different spheres of interaction, which makes the processes and mechanisms of students’ development, upbringing and education more complicated. Nonconstructive behavior of conflicting parties can lead to the transformation of professional conflicts into emotional ones, which can result in such negative consequences as growth of emotional tension, increase of uneasiness both in students and in teachers, usage of unjustified (sometimes provoking) means of psychological defense. On the other hand, constructive resolution of a conflict as an objective contradiction  can lead to  the higher level of development of the  parties interacting in the teaching process.

Present-day understanding of conflictological competence by the leading Russian scientists makes it possible to view it as an important social and cultural phenomenon, humanistic imperative in educational environment, one of the universal aspects of a person’s culture, their value system, as well as a moral principle of people’s interrelations. However, the character of reciprocal claims between the teaching staff, University authorities and students, which constitutes the main part of social and psychological tension in the higher educational institution, shows that some teachers and members of the University authorities do not possess the efficient practical means of conflict control [6].

Importance of realization of conflictological competence in modern education stipulated the appearance of a great amount of psychological and pedagogical research papers by A. Antsupov, G. Berezhnaya, F. Borodkinа,  N. Grishina, A. Dontsov, V. Kudryavtsev and others, who consider the development of this competence to be  a social value. These works  disclose the essence, forces at work, dynamics of conflict, show the conflict typology, describe the ways of conflict control, specify the responsibility of each of the subjects of educational offense for creating the conditions for the fulfillment by the educational system their social and educational functions. In these circumstances the responsibility for creating the conditions for realization of all the functions of the educational system presupposes, first of all, fulfillment in good faith of their professional duties by all the participants of pedagogical process [4; 7].

Thus, there are some obvious contradictions related to this problem: between the society’s demand for a non-conflicting person and inadequate ability of the higher education institutions to develop conflictological competence in future teachers; between the demand of the present-day pedagogical practice in theoretical and methodological justification of  conflictological competence and insufficient degree of its development in pedagogical science;  between the educators’ acknowledgement  of the necessity of conflictological competence development and the inadequate level of communicative competence for realization of such an activity [3; 6].

  Analysis of psychological and pedagogical research data shows that the necessity of conflictological knowledge and skills is recognized by all scholars, and conflictological training must become an integral part of curriculum in educating specialists in different fields. The notions of “conflictological readiness” and “conflictological competence and culture”, etc., are in the focus of researchers attention.  

Scientific research and publications of the latest period prove that educators’ competence in conflictology as a special type of competence becomes an important component of their professional training. This competence, in the opinion of G. Berezhnaya, includes not only the ability to fulfill professional functions in conflictogenic environment but also the ability to transform it for the successful fulfillment of professional pedagogical tasks. That is why conflictological competence of higher school educators as a pedagogical notion must reflect  the target direction of conflictological training, and it also should be viewed as  an integral quality of pedagogues, their readiness and ability to control conflicts in educational environment [2; 6].

Consequently, taking into account the scientifically proven approach of educational researchers  in the sphere of conflictological competence development in higher school pedagogues we can assume that the methodological basis for such a development must be a conflict-environmental approach, and educator’s conflictological competence should be considered the principle task in their  professional training in a higher educational institution.

 

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