Development of a System for Improving Future Teachers’ Readiness for the Child’s Spiritual and Moral Development in a Cross-Cultural Space

Nowadays higher education is developing in accordance with new needs of modern school. The main task of this process is to provide necessary conditions for the spiritual and moral development of the child’s personality. This task determines the emergence of new approaches and innovative pedagogical tools, which include information and communication technologies. In this regard, the issue of future teacher’s competence in the field of new and creative performance of educational tasks is being actualized. The article describes a specially designed system, which is aimed at the improvement of future teacher’s readiness for the child’s spiritual and moral development by means of using traditional Ukrainian fairy tales –SMDC (spiritual and spiritual development of the child). SMDC requires the use of information and communication technologies. This is a pedagogical tool, which is designed for students of the Bachelor's degree programin Primary Education. The system requires: 1) development of a package of multimedia materials; 2) selection of educational materials, which contain tools for the child’s spiritual and moral education; 3) creation of students’ own materials, which are aimed at their personal and professional development

Pedagogy of Argumentation: Teaching the Skills of Argumentation to Older Teens

The article deals with the problem of training future teachers to teach older teens the ability of argumentation as an intellectual and communicative activity. The authors analyze the specifics of the training of future teachers in higher education institutions; the process of formation of the competence of teaching the ability of argumentation; the development of pedagogy of argumentation in higher education institutions. The current stage of the education system development requires improving the level of teachers’ training. The problem of professional competence of future teachers who acquire the method of teaching students the ability of argument is relevant. At the same time, there is a need to develop a special professional quality of the future teacher–to be able to defend their own point of view, to formulate theses, to effectively build a system of arguments during communication. So, the issue has a complex character–university students should be taught pedagogical argumentation, they should be equipped with the corresponding technique in order their future pupils gain an opportunity to realize successfully the structure of argumentation both in written and spoken communication. The purpose of the article is to determine the features of teaching methods used at secondary school when forming pupils’ ability of argumentation. This paper aims to identify the main approaches to teaching argumentation, to find out the level of future teachers’ readiness to teach students the ability of argumentation, to develop an experimental method of teaching pedagogy of argumentation and check its results. We conducted an experimental study with 44 students

Cultivating a child’s love for parents as a spiritual practice: pedagogical aspect

Spiritual education of a child is one of the most difficult and important areas of educational research. The way of family life has always been reflected in the moral character of a person. The emotional and moral atmosphere reigning in the family, the desire to share responsibility, the level of mutual understanding and mutual respect, parental love and reciprocal feelings of a child, family traditions – all these lay the foundation for spirituality. Teachers who work with younger students often observe their interactions with their parents. Each child and each parent is individual, and relationships between them develop differently. In this article, the authors reflect on teachers’ role in cultivating love, where the theoretical concept of “from child to parent” is the basis for study. The article identifies the types of a child’s love for parents, reveals the markers of manifestation of a child’s love for parents, which is positively associated with the cultural and social environment. In addition, the basic pedagogical characteristics for cultivating a child’s love for their parents in the context of the school are proposed