Būsimųjų pedagogų vertybinės nuostatos, jų kaitos tendencijos
Future Teachers’ Value-Related Attitudes and the Tendencies of Their Changes

Summary/Abstract: The article is an analysis of the problem of values in the postmodernist society and related reflections in education as well as in educational research. On the basis of research carried out in Lithuania (by E. Martišauskienė, V. Armavičiūtė, etc.), the author comes to a conclusion that that the issue of developing value-related attitudes belongs to the most significant problems of contemporary education. A question is raised in the work where the roots of the postmodernist society moral value crisis are. In the opinion of both education philosophers and theoreticians of education, the aforementioned problem arises firstly due to insufficient personality orientation towards spiritual values of educators themselves. The monograph by Kaunas Vytautas Magnus University professor, K. Pukelis (2004), devoted to parameters of the idealistic teacher-training model, contains a clear-cut distinction of educator personality significance as one of the most important parameters. 11. Namely the above factors were a stimulus for the author of this paper to analyse, which value-related orientations are typical of young people having chosen educator careers, in order to have a basis for making suggestions regarding selection procedures of future teachers as well as for implementing reforms in teaching pedagogical subjects at universities. 12. The results of the author’s first investigations on future teachers’ value-related attitudes were presented in 1999. A comparison of the outcomes of investigations carried out in 1999 and in 2005 indicates that, on the contrary to results of analogous research related to young people’s value-related attitudes in general, future educators and education researchers have stable attitudes and highest-level evaluation of honesty and sincerity, i.e. they are oriented towards social values, fairness of human interrelations and humanity. Such results manifest that future teachers have chosen the right way by entering studies in the field of education science, which belongs to social sciences. Yet we feel great concern about the fact that all the research connected with evaluative orientations has resulted in the native land belonging to the lowest rank of values. In the author’s opinion, this is a serious sign for our small nation in the age of globalisation. Thus there exists a necessity to radically revise the position of patriotic education in our educational system. 13. As can be seen in the tables presented in the current article, acknowledgement of family and work as values has grown during the last six years (since the beginning of our research in 1999).

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