Psychological culture of a modern university teacher as a determinant of student development (in the context of teaching students of agricultural orientation)

Don State Technical University, 1, Gagarin sq., 344003, Rostov on Don, Russia

^* Corresponding author: avgrishina.donstu@gmail.com

Abstract

The article presents the generalized experience of studying the psychological culture of university teachers. Authors sustained the relevance of the problem on the example of teaching specialists for the agro-industrial complex and updated the basic requirements for modern agro-industrial specialists. The article gives a review of methodological foundations of studying the psychological culture: the analysis of approaches to the definition of “psychological culture”, the components of the psychological culture and the levels of its development, the features of the psychological culture of teachers. Authors reveal the specifics of the professional activity of a higher education teacher in the context of the personality-oriented education implementation by providing an emprical study. The procedure of empirical research to study the components of the psychological culture of university teachers with different lengths of pedagogical activity is described. The results of an empirical study aimed at studying the following components of psychological culture are described in detail: affective (empathy), communicative (social communicative competence) and value-semantic (communicative tolerance) and an integral indicator of the cultural and psychological potential of university teachers. Authors show the features of the formation of communicative competence, empathy, communicative tolerance depending on the length of pedagogicalactivity.