Features of developing the worldview competency of future teachers of the english language and foreign literature

Abstract

In connection with modernisation processes taking place in the Ukrainian education and its transition to a competent paradigm, attention is paid to the competences and qualifications of education workers as they are to introduce new approaches to the development of education. Worldview competence is an element of educational competence that covers all three levels of competence development and is characterized by personal experience, values related to interaction with the environment. This competence implies planetary responsibility, noosphere thinking, a culture of civilisation, and a system of new values. The purpose of this article is to describe some of peculiarities of the process of developing the world-view competence of future teachers of English and foreign literature. The methods of research used: analysis and synthesis, comparison, systematisation and classification of philosophical, sociological, psychological and pedagogical scientific sources of literature in order to identify the theoretical foundations and the state of development of the problem under the study. The world-wide competence of a teacher of English and foreign literature is the competence in the world of thought associated with value orientations, the ability to see and understand the surrounding foreign world, to navigate within it, to realise its role and purposeful, creative orientation in the native and foreign language environment, the ability to choose target and meaningful parameters of teaching and learning process, making creative decisions.