THE SUBSTANTIATION OF THE ESSENCE OF A FUTURE TEACHER’S PROFESSIONAL CULTURE AS A PERSONAL PHENOMENON FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THE CULTUROLOGICAL APPROACH

Abstract

The article covers various definitions of the concept of “culture”, which expand and fill the concept of “a teacher’s professional culture” with a new meaning and content. The specified personal phenomenon is viewed on the basis of the culturological approach and it manifests itself in the permanent process of professional and personal development and selfdevelopment, identifying humanistic orientation, self-actualization, and, in this regard, the ability to carry out purposeful activities, find the new meanings of the professional life, professional “self”, professional functions, find the ways of one’s “essential forces” realization. The definition of the problem field allowed us to identify the tasks of the possible directions of the formative process in relation to a future teacher’s professional culture. The task should be focused around future teachers’ culturological and worldview preparation.