THE TEACHER'S ROLE IN THE MODERN EDUCATIONAL PROCESS

Kamo Chilingaryan¹*, Rimma Gorbatenko² and Olga Gorbatenko^3
1Associate Prof., Peoples’ Friendship University, The Russian Federation, chili1@yandex.ru
²Associate Prof., Peoples’ Friendship University, The Russian Federation, gorbatenko_rg@pfur.ru ³Associate Prof., Peoples’ Friendship University, The Russian Federation, vegera2009@yandex.ru
*Corresponding Author

Abstract

This article attempts to examine the transformation of the teacher’s role in the humanities and sciences in higher education institutions, in terms of demands to the educational process, relevant to the Bologna agreement. A teacher serves as a "guide" in the huge array of information flows. Professional activities of the teacher, especially in the humanities, is aimed not at being the primary source of  professional information, but he/she needs to help students find the necessary information, analyze it, assess it adequately, and to form their own opinions and ideas. This means that the teacher bears more responsibility; not only prepare a professional, but educate citizens, "a human in a human". The peculiarity of Humanitarian Sciences is that the same fact can be assessed in different ways. For example, the student can independently find and study information about any person or event; he can even independently explore different points of view on historical processes. The task of the teacher is, first, not to allow the student to "sink" in the vast array of information, second, help the student to look at the facts from a different perspectives, to form a comprehensive understanding of a phenomena, third, together with the students analyze the fact so that the student could develop his/her own views and opinions, and he could defend his point of view with arguments. In this case, the personal communication of the teacher and the student plays a huge role. The author comes to conclusions that the teacher shifts from the "source of knowledge" into a "conductor" of informational flow.

Keywords: Role of a teacher, Teaching practice, The Bologna process, Information flow, Humanity.