Pedeutology 2300-OPED

Content: Teaching - profession or mission, pedagogical orientations in examining teachers, personality approach (traits), functional approach (job activities), flexibility and stability of teachers' professional functions, description of characteristics of teachers activity: certainty and doubt, autonomy of activity, ethics, communication and interpretation skills, generating knowledge, ambivalence of professional role, teacher - student interactions, their effectiveness (self-assessment, teacher's self-acceptance, teacher generated image of student), the role of theory in pedagogical activity, academic theory versus personal theory, types of teacher professionalism, controversies around pragmatic qualifications, teachers' identity, dynamics of professional development.