The future teachers’ emotional culture development as a professional growth resource

Nowadays, the search for the new opportunities how to improve the teacher’s professional level and how to create the conditions for his professional growth has intensified. The teacher’s professional growth implies a qualitative transformation of professionally important personal properties and abilities, professional knowledge and skills within the framework of the professional activity. The modern teachers’ professional activity develops in the context of uncertainty, novelty and ambiguity. Constantly changing situations actualize the value-semantic and emotional aspects of the teachers’ professional development. The foregoing indicates that it is important for the future teachers to develop an emotional culture as a component of a professional culture. In this regard, the problem of the study is formulated as follows: how to develop the future teachers’ emotional culture in the university? Hence, the purpose of the study is to develop and implement a structural-content model to develop the future teachers’ emotional culture. To test the hypothesis that the understanding of the emotional culture as a resource for a professional growth and modelling the process of its development at a university is important, the following methods are used: theoretical (the scientific literature analysis on the problem of the future teachers’ emotional culture development; to study and generalize the emotional culture development experience in the university), empirical (the observation, survey and pedagogical experiment) and methods of the obtained data mathematical processing. An empirical study is carried out on the basis of Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University. It has included the developed structural-content model approbation and the subsequent diagnostics of the axiological, cognitive, bihavioral, volitional and reflexive components formation in future teachers’ emotional culture. The study results can be used to develop and implement the future teachers’ training programs, as well as the teachers’ advanced training system in the university. In the future, it is reasonable to study the psychological and methodological university teachers’ readiness to develop the future teachers’ emotional culture.