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VALUES EDUCATION AT SCHOOL AS A FIELD OF TEACHERS’ PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES SELECTED OBSERVATIONS BASED ON SURVEYS

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the issue of teachers’ professionalism in the context of values education at school. The problem appears to be of particular relevance nowadays, as it reflects one of the major contemporary challenges facing education, especially in its institutional form. Although the problem has already been subject to a certain degree of scientific scrutiny, the deeper we delve into it, the more we become aware of confusion and uncertainty still permeating this area. The greatest difficulty is typically nested in determining the properties of teaching activities, so that they are conducive to pupils’ development rather than to hindering it through authoritative and manipulative attitudes. Thus, from humanistic point of view, education respecting pupils as persons with their individuality and autonomy appears to be the most vital factor at any time and at any stage of teachers’ professional work within values education. As already postulated many years ago by prof. S. Rucinski, the most important aspect in professional implementation of values education at school is that teachers treat pupils as entities with autotelic value. Only through such an approach can optimal conditions for the rational use of pupils’ potential be instigated in an effort to prompt their self-actualisation.

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