Образ человека будущего, Том 7 (СИ)

The intention of education at the chosen university is mainly teaching. Nevertheless, along with teaching qualification students can get other kinds of professions like an interpreter, editor, social worker, university lecturer, etc. That is important for understanding of the obtained data.

Vision about future profession:

1. 23% are going to teach after university.

2. 40% are not sure if they are going to teach.

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3. 37% are not going to be teachers.

Reasons for study at the university:

1. 25% are interested to get a teaching profession.

2. 65% have come to the university to study a specific subject like languages, philosophy, etc. without a direct aim to become teachers.

3. 10% have no definite interest in any kind of profession. Their department and the univer-sity were just a place where they went after school.

Only 3% had another profession before the university.

External motivation for teaching profession:

1. 15% think that long-term summer vacation is an important benefit.

2. 6% reckon that teaching gives respect and prestige in the society.

3. 21% see the possibilities of additional earnings along with school lessons as a benefit of teaching.

Overall, the respondents who are going to be teachers do not see much of external benefits of this profession.

Internal motivation for teaching profession:

1. 60% of future teachers would like to work and communicate with children whatever subject it is.

2. 35% would like to teach and educate youth.

3. 29% want to benefit society and serve others.

4. 18% declare a spiritual calling for goodness.

5. 17% first of all like their special subject of teaching.

6. 3% have a religious calling for teaching.

Calling to teaching profession:

1. 25% of the respondents are sure of being called to teach.

2. 52% cannot say if they have or do not have a calling for teaching.

3. 23% of the respondents state definitely that they do not feel any calling for pedagogics.

General attitude towards calling:

1. 50% of respondents say that it is necessarily to choose a profession according to own calling.

2. For 20% it is desirable, but not necessary, to combine calling and profession.

3. 30% think that calling can be fully realized beyond the profession.

The results of the survey show that pedagogic university students in Ukraine have various reasons to study and not so many of them, about 25%, would like to become teachers. Rel-atively more, namely 33%, of senior pupils at schools appeared to know their callings. That means that pedagogic universities in Ukraine are not exactly focused on pedagogics. They of-fer a big variety of professions in order to get sufficient number of students. Therefore, for the significant part of the students teaching career is not the aim of their study. Nevertheless, for more than a half, up to 70%, of students calling is a really important motivating factor whether for teaching, or for another job.

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In-depth interviews about calling

Ten students of the pedagogic university were invited for the individual interviews that took place at H. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in May and June 2016. The students were from various departments: 5 were linguistics and literature students, 2 were students of social psychology and social management and 3 were students of philosophy, religion and social science. All the participants were going to become teachers or educators in some perspective and declared their feeling or understanding of call-ing. They were in the end of the 3rd year of study at the university. 8 were female, 2 male, age 19-21 years old. The interviewees came to the university form the various parts of Ukraine. 5 teachers from Kyiv schools were also asked for the interviews in August 2016. The interviews were at places convenient for every teacher, mainly at their school or at H. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

All the interviews were audio recorded and later transcribed. In the process of analyses, the main themes were selected from each interview with reduction of non-relevant pieces. The consis-tent statements and general themes were repeatedly reflected on and analyzed. The individual dif-ferences of the experiences were not lost though. Every interview gives the unique appearance of the phenomenon of calling and personal attitudes towards it. The experience of everyone worth to write a special short story, but we have no room for it in this article. All the names of the students and teachers are changed in this article, except one teacher who wanted a real name to be left.