COMMUNICATIVE CULTURE AS A CRITERION FOR THE SOCIAL COMPETENCE OF A FUTURE TEACHER

Abstract

Formation and diagnostics of the current state of formation of social competence of future educators in a modern pre-school education institution is a highly topical problem since the success of socialization of the younger generation depends on its solution. The article analyses different approaches to defining the content of the concept of professional competence of future teachers of pre-school education institutions and its structure. The notion of social competence and its role in the professional activity of pre-school teachers is defined. The aim of the article is essentially the functional analysis of the concept of communicative culture as one of the essential criteria of the formation of social competence of a future pre-school teacher. The research methods are defined: analysis, synthesis, generalization, systematization. The communicative culture of the future educator of pre-school education institution is defined by the acquired quality of personality, ensuring the implementation of all communication components. The communicative culture is characterized by a system of communicative knowledge, skills, experience and abilities, providing language communication behaviour, orientation in a communicative situation, choice of the necessary style of behaviour to achieve the purpose of the communicative act, argumentation of own life and social position, constructive conduct of business negotiations and productive communication culture of a future educator. The communicative culture of the future pre-school educator is formed in the process of professional training. Realizing a number of important functions, communicative culture can serve as a criterion for determining the state of formation of social competence of a future pre-school educator. Further research requires the development of methodological tools and recommendations for determining the state of formation of future educators’ social competence through communicative culture indicators.