Scientific-methodological Foundations of Future Teachers’ Health Culture Forming

Abstract

The future teachers’ problem of occupational health culture formation is actualized in the research, the results of researches are presented by the authors of the state of occupational health of teachers, which showed its low indicators. Based on analysis, synthesis, comparison and systematization of the data of philosophical, pedagogical and psychological scientific literature: the essence of occupational health culture is determined; the author’s interpretation of the future teachers’ occupational health culture is given; conceptual and methodological guidelines (defining dialectical, philosophical principles and methodological approaches) to its formation as a basis for understanding and its further solving in a practical sphere are defined, to substantiate and create a system for the formation of the future teachers’ occupational health culture in the vocational training phase in particular. The methodological principles that define the general guidelines of theoretical and empirical scientific research are distinguished: the principle of objectivity, the principle of essential analysis, the genetic principle, the principle of unity of logical and historical, the principle of determinism, the principle of integrity, the principle of comprehensiveness of cognition, the principle of conceptual unity. Methodological approaches to the study of the problem of formation of future teachers’ occupational health culture - general scientific (systemic and synergetic) and specifically scientific (activity, anthropological, axiological, cultural, acmeological, humanistic, subject), are defined and characterized. Each of the described approaches reveals the essential characteristics of the phenomenon under study from a specific side. The necessity of a complex combination of approaches, which are the methodological guidelines of the study, for a deep understanding of forming the future teachers’ culture of occupational health is proved. The prospects of further scientific researches, which are to substantiate the system of forming the future teachers’ culture of occupational health, psychological and pedagogical conditions for creating a healthy educational environment in higher education, comparatively pedagogical study of foreign experience of organizing health care activities are outlined.