W artykule porównano konstruowanie tożsamości narodowej przyszłych nauczycieli w Słowacji i Serbii. Pomiaru tożsamości narodowej dokonano przy pomocą skali NAIT (National Identity Scale)1. Badana grupa składała się ze 163 studentów narodowości słowackiej i 163 narodowości serbskiej (N – 326), 12% mężczyzn i 88% kobiet. W obrębie obu badanych grup, poprzez międzykulturowe analizy porównawcze, dokonano ewaluacji parametrów wyniku surowego ankiety. Wyniki badań wskazują, że przyszli nauczyciele w Słowacji prezentują wyższy poziom i większą stałość tożsamości narodowej. Jednocześnie badanie dowodzi, że świadomość narodowa słowackich przyszłych nauczycieli wzmacniana jest poczuciem patriotyzmu, a serbskich studentów – poczuciem nacjonalizmu. Wyniki omówione zostały w kontekście szkolenia przyszłych nauczycieli, z perspektywy tolerancji i międzykulturowości. Konkluzja zawiera szkic koncepcji edukacji międzykulturowej.

The article is devoted to the problem of increase of the pedagogical universities undergraduates’ motivation to develop their foreign language competency. The main reasons necessitating continuous increase of the foreign language competence level have been determined. Utilizing such research methods as the focus group survey, theoretical generalization, comparison and pedagogical experiment, it has been proved that the maximum inclusion of students in foreign language activities with professional scientific information is an effective factor in increasing the professional orientation of the foreign languages learning by the future teachers. This type of work in the process of studying various academic disciplines provides a positive dynamics of the motivation components and readiness of the future teachers to work with scientific foreign-language information. It has been shown that netnographic analysis of the foreign-language scientific publications is also an effective factor in personal and professional development, socio-cultural communication, and the students’ mobility in professional and academic environment.

The main scientific focus of the paper is the new pedagogical knowledge about the educational activities content and organization for the development of future teachers’ communicative competence, together with the new aspects of educational communication, implemented in the modern information environment. The paper describes the approach to students’ communicative competence development based on the use of educational blogs. During the research students solved professional pedagogical problems, described and discussed their experience in blogs. For each of the problem solved, students had a specially developed activity algorithm. The algorithm structure described teachers’ and students’ actions, additional electronic resources, stages of monitoring activities, terms of effectiveness, as well as extracurricular activities assessment scale.

Digital Technologies in the Preparation of Future Teachers: Modern Challenges of Distance Education

The article highlights the theoretical and practical aspects of the organization of distance education in Ukraine, which has become especially active in the current conditions of the coronavirus pandemic and the imposed martial law due to large-scale Russian invasion. The research methods that allowed to conduct high-quality scientific research on the research issue in the field of higher education in Ukraine are highlighted. The article analyzes the social challenges, which relate primarily to the preparation of future teachers for the use of digital technologies in teaching. The need for professional training of future teachers is obvious, as graduates in further professional activities must be able to organize and implement the educational process in educational institutions using the potential of information and communication technologies, which is one of the most important professional competencies of modern professionals. The results of an empirical study of the outlined problem, which involved teachers from different regions of Ukraine (some of the respondents were students studying at the university and gaining the profession of teacher) are presented. The survey method revealed the understanding of teachers of educational institutions of different types of existing problems and challenges regarding the use of digital resources and tools in distance learning of students. The sample included different age categories of respondents: Boomer Generation, Generation X and Millennium (Generation Y). It was found that some respondents have difficulties in using didactic knowledge in distance learning (36.4%), creating moral and psychological comfort (36.4%), organizing and stimulating activity (25.5%) and effective online communication (21, 8%). Some digital technologies and tools for distance learning of future teachers and organizational forms of using information and communication technologies (ICT) are outlined.

The contribution is a research probe into problems of motivation for teacher's profession as well as seeking for causes leading teachers to leave school system. We retrieved these data through comparison of results from two groups of respondents - future teachers and teachers from practice using a questionnaire of our own provenience.

Identity and attitudes of academic youth – a Polish-Czech comparative study

The article is a report on comparative studies carried out in the PolishCzech borderland in 2022–2023 among pedagogy students of Polish and Czech universities. The research was placed in the objectivist paradigm and the survey method was applied. The study was aimed at determining the sense of identity of young people, at learning about values, attitudes towards other nations and types of intergroup interactions taking place in the borderland. In order to check whether there are statistically significant differences between the groups in the responses to individual questions, the Mann-Whitney U test was used. In the context of the obtained results, it can be concluded that academic youth from the Polish and Czech parts of the borderland attribute significant importance to belonging to one biological species inhabiting the earth (no statistically significant differences between groups). Polish youth are similar to their peers living in the Czech Republic. The similarities pertain to identification in the system: person – gender – nationality, to positive attitude towards other nations and to values. There are statistically significant differences between the two cohorts in their attitudes towards individual nations and in their assessment of the types of social interactions occurring in the borderland. The specificity and differences have their sources in the sociocultural, political and economic situation of the country in which the young live and in the educational system to which they have been subjected. The future is a never-ending project that is constantly changing. Borderland research is the analysis of contexts in which the construction of the vision and the use of the realities of the existing social space take place. Research on academic youth provides information not only about its condition and the image of contemporary borderland, but also about its desired shape.