Competitiveness as an indicator personal and professional growth of the pedagogue
The article studies the phenomenon of competitiveness with reference to professional pedagogic activity. In conditions of dynamic complication of the conditions of professional activity and everyday life, the personal and professional growth of the pedagogue remains topical. Competitiveness is considered as a subjective characteristic, reflecting the quality of the personal and professional growth of the pedagogue. On the basis of a theoretical analysis of the problem, an empirical study was constructed and implemented. The semantic differences in the understanding of the category that have appeared are of a dynamic nature: the competitiveness of pedagogues is more closely linked to the achievement of greater success already in the occupied workplace, and in students - with the search for the most attractive workplace. It allowed us confirming the assumption that competitiveness is subjectively justified in the pedagogic community by the parameter of assessing the personal and professional growth of the pedagogue. It is established that this concept has a semantic “core” and variational elements, determined by subject membership to generations of pedagogic staff.