Formation of Methodological Culture of a Design Teacher
Formation of Methodological Culture of a Design Teacher

Summary/Abstract: The necessity of forming a high-level methodological culture of design teachers is theoretically substantiated. The main structural components of design teachers' methodological culture (artistic-creative, innovative-pedagogical, scientific research, professional-acmeological, evaluative-reflexive) are determined. A longitudinal (for 15 years) experiment on raising the level of design teachers' methodological culture (135 teachers) from design and design-related departments of 8 universities in different regions of Ukraine is carried out. On the basis of empirical investigations the authors elaborated indices and determined three levels of design teachers' methodological culture: methodological literacy (initial), methodological competence (intermediate), and methodological professionalism (high). It was also found out that implementation of the proposed organizational and pedagogical measures helped to increase the higher level of methodological culture of design teachers in the experimental group by more than 2.7 times compared to the design teachers of the control group. It is concluded that the main factor that contributes to improving the teachers-designers' methodological culture is their active involvement in research and development work.

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