The Academic Events Group, 5th Cyprus International Conference on Educational Research,

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Religious identity and value systems of future preschool teachers
Valentina F Petrova

Last modified: 2015-12-28

Abstract


The topic is urgent in Tatarstan (RF region) nowadays as young people, including students, future preschool teachers, actively join religious organizations. The researchers have facts of young people showing latent national and religious aggression, which can lead to religious extremism. Preschool teachers have a strong hold over kids. They can provoke enmity or hate to people of a different religion or nationality by a careless word or action and this is unacceptable. In the process of training students should not only get necessary professional qualities, but also develop the system of personal values. The purpose of the research is to elicit the specific nature in value system development among 18-20 year-old girls, future preschool teachers in the context of increase of their religious identification. Methods of the research monitoring students' activity in different kinds of academic activity and practical work; interviewing students; Religions Orientation Scale (Allport G., Ross J.); values scales (Schwartz). The reduction was made with the help of Student's t-test. The result is that we determined that most students share external religious attitude. Visiting cults, participation in religious ceremonies are the means to prove their belonging to generally accepted mode of life. Religion itself is not a value for them. The data received let us make a conclusion about irrelevance between manifested by the students’ religious values and their everyday life values. The information can be helpful for the university professors to personalize the process of professional training, to use the technologies of developing and self-developing moral and professional values in future preschool teachers.

 

 


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