Received 04.10.2023
Revised 09.01.2024
Accepted 28.02.2024
Retrieved from Vol. 14, No. 1, 2024
Pages 99 -128
Abstract
A significant transformations take place in the modern world (climate change, total digitalization, economic globalization, wars, rebuilding of international relations, etc.). Teachers responsible for the personal development of future generations. Teachers have a task of providing students worldview knowledge with the aim of forming mature personal attitudes and constructive adaptation to new world realities. In the article presented results of empiric research of personality relations of the modern Ukrainian pedagogical workers to the processes of globalization and world changes. The author presented the original classification of global world changes: ecological, biological, social, demographic, geopolitical, economic, technical and cultural changes. The realization of empiric research based on using the authorial questionnaire «Attitudes to world changes». This questionnaire includes a procedures as: ranging of the global world changes, self-assessment of level of own adapted to them. This questionnaire has also the questions of open type. The analysis of answers of respondents was carried out by count a percent indexes and by content analysis of answers. The author presents the results of a detailed analysis of the questionnaire. The age-specific characteristics of the manifestation of personal attitudes towards globalization processes among modern teachers were established. The results of the research showed that young teachers aged 25-39 are the most active and creative part of the pedagogical community. The study of personal attitudes of teachers made it possible to determine the peculiarities of their psychological adaptation to modern conditions. Social and biological changes proved to be the most difficult for teachers to adapt. The content-frequency analysis of the content of personal attitudes of teachers to global world changes made it possible to identify 8 clusters of factors (social, political, ecological, activity, psychological, worldviewcultural, basic-independent and spiritual) that cause world changes, and the corresponding psychological determinants psychological adaptation to them. Awareness of the essence of global world changes by teachers and the formation of a system of mature personal attitudes towards them is the basis for the development of adaptive capabilities in the period of overcoming the crisis and reforming social relations in our country
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