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author: Yevhen Muliarchuk


Urgency of the research. The research responds to the contemporary need of meaning and motivation for human development. The analysis of the topics of calling and ethos of learning and teaching is provided in the context of the solution of the problem of development of new educational practices.

Target setting. The problem of the article consists in defining of the ethical grounds for the development of interaction of teachers and students in the educational process and in the clarification of the main features of the contemporary ethos of teaching and learning.

Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. The analysis of the role of a teacher as responsible for the forming of the competences of students and of anthropological and axiological grounds of the system of education present the studies of V. M. Dovbnya, O. Y. Gomilko, L. S. Gorbunova, M. D. Kultaeva, S. I. Pirozhkov, I. M. Predborska, S. V. Proleev, N. V. Khamitov and others. Philosophic grounds of ethical understanding of the problem consist in the works of E. Levinas and his researchers C. Joldersma, L. M. Karachevtseva, V. A. Malakhov, A. V. Jampolskaya and others.

The research objective. Firstly, on the basis of interpretation of philosophy of E. Levinas to discover the grounds of the ethics of calling in the relation to the problems of interpersonal communication of educator and student. Secondly, to analyze the opinions of teachers about their calling and ethical obligations. Thirdly, to explicate the main features of the ethos of calling of a learner.

The statement of basic materials. The main conditions of the ethics of E. Levinas in their interpretation concerning the practice of educational process presented in the paper of C. Joldersma “A Levinasian Ethics for Education’s Commonplaces: Between Calling and Inspiration” are following: education presumes ethical responsibility, personal involvement of a teacher into caring about the good and wellbeing of a student, education is based on confidence, openness and understanding of ethical asymmetry of the relations of a teacher and a learner. Those principles and values define the contemporary ethos of teaching and learning. On the basis of own research the author analyzes the opinions of Ukrainian teachers about the essence and importance of calling in education. The study also defines the determinative ethical directions of the ethos of learners.

Conclusions. The living interpersonal communication between a teacher and a learner needs to be preserved and kept in the process of education. The practice of education must be personalized. Therefore, must be avoided depersonalization as well as excessive standardization of giving and assessment of knowledge. In this consideration the ethics of E. Levinas is fundamental for understanding of the ways of development of interaction between teachers and students in the educational process. The perspective directions of the further researches are the analysis of the phenomenon of calling as a motivational factor in education as well as theoretical researches in the sphere of ethics of responsibility, communication and interpersonal relations.

Keywords: ethos, teaching, learning, responsibility, calling.

 

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