Abstract:

The author strives to reveal axiological foundations of training foreign language teachers for non-linguistic universities through the lens of cultural pluralism, heterogeneous national culture, evolution of information civilization and innovative economy. The fomation and development of a person’s innovative capacity has proved to be a major educational vector of the general education progress as well as foreign language teacher training. In this paper the concept of a homo innovative is put forward as an educational ideal of the modern world. The author demonstrates that the process of a homo innovative development is bifocal: the professional (practical) aspect related to the ability to create professional innovations has to be coupled with the culturological aspect related to the ability of a person to preserve and enrich moral values of the native and global culture. It is proved that the axiological focus of modern language teacher training could be strengthened by employing the mechanisms of meaning and value formation which can affect transformation of educational information into personal meanings and values. These mechanisms actualize the idea of integrating the cognitive ways of understanding information with the interpretative methods based on personal semantic attitude to the subject of understanding rooted in the individual values of a person. This approach is related to the methods of text interpretation as a means of developing personal meanings that were elaborated within pedagogical hermeneutics.

Keywords:

Foreign language teacher training for non-linguistic universities, educational ideal, pluralism of cultures, culture inhomogeneity, innovative potential of a professional, innovative personality, homo innovative, mechanisms of meaning formation, interpretative ways of understanding information, pedagogical hermeneutics.