Kolegijos dėstytojų savęs pažinimo patirtis: kryptys, turinys, būdai
The Experience of Self-Knowledge of College Teachers: Trends, Ways and the Content

Summary/Abstract: Recently with the beginning of standardization of the educational process the question of an educator as a personality and his/her expression has become relevant again. Individual experience and self-knowledge are especially important (Laužackas, 1988; Ramsden, 1994). The shift of social self and becoming of oneself are substantial topics in psychology as they influence our social thinking and are important for social behaviour (Beresnevičienė, 1996; Davidoff, 1987; Furst, 1999). The self-knowledge experience of college teachers, trends of teachers’ reflection of their inner world and the essence of self-knowledge are analysed in the paper. The data of the empirical research of the professional individual becoming a college teacher are presented. The empirical research described in the article showed that: · Most college teachers think that they know themselves as personalities; · College teachers tend to relate activity with practice rather than with goals or the dissemination of ideas; · Teachers stress such features, according to which they describe themselves as personalities: attitude towards the job (63.64%), relations with other people (61.5%) and attitude towards results (46.33%); · Teachers think that features, which distinguish educators from other people, are: ability to listen (73.8%), advertence to others (46%), ability to work in a team (45.5%); · The most characteristic motives for teachers for interaction are: to gain new experience (29.3%), to make friends (17.01%) and possibility to express themselves; · The most acceptable forms of criticism are: personal-directed (61.6%) and criticism by colleagues (25.8%); unacceptable: public criticism (1.7%) and criticism by administration (6.8%). Having considered the research results the following conclusions were drawn: · Self-knowledge enables an educator to reflect his/her inner world and perceive the state of other people; · It is typical for self-knowledge that it discloses a personality to himself, outlines and widens possibilities; · Self-knowledge can be defined as an activity, reflection.

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