Cultivating humanistic values in aspiring foreign language teachers: the influence of the university setting
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https://doi.org/10.56294/sctconf20251575Keywords:
higher education, philological speciality, axiological system, humanities, didactic model, activity approachAbstract
Introduction: The relevance of this topic since the teaching profession is impossible without a system of values that the teacher will then form among the generation of his/her students.
Objective: The article examines the role of the university environment in forming humanistic values in students, particularly philology students and future foreign language teachers.
Methods: The study is based on the empirical experience of teaching humanities at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv in the training of future foreign language teachers. The level of humanistic values formation was assessed based on the methodology for diagnosing value orientations (according to Rokeach).
Results: The article describes the main ways of integrating an interdisciplinary approach into the educational process for the formation of humanistic values in the university environment; reveals the role and potential of the university as an educational environment and develops a theoretical model of the process of forming humanistic values of university students; defines the criteria and levels of formation of humanistic values of students, experimentally tests the effectiveness of the model of the process of forming humanistic values of students.
Conclusions: Thus, the authors have proved the effectiveness of the introduced didactic model of gradual and integrated formation of humanistic values. During the formative stage of the experiment, it was possible to modify and organise the system of humanistic values, in particular, the values of freedom (+3.1%), the happiness of others (+3%), tolerance (+2%), and reducing the dominance of material values (-6%).
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