SPIRITUAL CULTURE OF THE INDIVIDUAL AS A PRIORITY COMPONENT IN PROFESSIONAL TEACHER’S TRAINING
SPIRITUAL CULTURE OF THE INDIVIDUAL AS A PRIORITY COMPONENT IN PROFESSIONAL TEACHER’S TRAINING

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the core of the concepts “culture”, “spiritual culture”, “a teacher’s spiritual culture”. Priority ranking of the spiritual component for future teachers’ training has been proved; the issue focuses on the importance of educators’ spiritual culture in their career, pupils’ guidance in inwardness and character building. The article summarizes the key qualifications and challenges to a future teacher’s personality: love, respect to children, empathic ability; maturity of the system of spiritual values; need for realization of personal potential in profession and self-improvement aimed at spiritual growth; skills and abilities to monitor inner wishes, emotions, feelings and negative thoughts; honesty, fairness; desire for acquisition of new spiritual and ethic knowledge; personal experience in spiritual culture.

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