Preparation of a future teacher as a social and moral educator: a theoretical underpinning
This research focuses on the personality of teacher as a social and moral educator. Developments in home social education bring some negative phenomena in the treatment and instruction received by a child from its parents and teachers throughout its childhood and this is a complex issue to address. Changes are needed to the definition of theoretical underpinning of future teachers in the systematization of modern scientific knowledge about upbringing. The research explored comprehensive conceptual descriptions of the relevant phenomena and examined the educational activities of the teacher, using data from a variety of scientific disciplines. The study identified some key problems in the preparation of student teachers, and examined the strengths and weaknesses of existing software. It explored how student teachers approached activities to shape the image of the graduate pedagogical higher educational institution (as demanded by the heads of Russian schools) and form their view modern scientific knowledge in the field of theory and methodology of upbringing. The results can help us develop a theoretical basis for the preparation of future teachers as social and moral educators in general and non-formal education.