PSYCO-PEDAGOGICAL BASES OF TOLERANCE DEVELOPMENT AS AN IMPORTANT CHARACTERISTIC OF THE FUTURE TEACHER’S PERSONALITY IN THE CONDITIONS OF MODERN RUSSIAN EDUCATION

Abstract

Tolerance of the future teacher as the quality of the individual and the professional meets the needs of today’s socio-cultural transformations. The paper aims at identifying the psycho-pedagogical bases of tolerance development as an important characteristic of the future teacher’s personality in the conditions of modern Russian education. The profound comprehensive analysis allowed investigating the circumstances of modern education that caused drastic reforms. The psycho-educational basic foundations of tolerance under the present-day Russian education conditions are discovered. Problems and contradictions of tolerance evolution as a future teacher’s personal quality in the system of higher education are examined. The author’s approach to studying the problems of formation and characterizing tolerance as a concept, its: psychological specificity and functions in education is proposed. Thus it is necessary to improve the quality and create a new system of teacher training. The general set of professional knowledge, skills and competences of future teachers should be taken into account in the development of professional qualities including tolerance; in creating practically oriented programs for the tolerance development of the future teacher as the personality and professional trait.