Teacher's Professional Health as a Factor of the Development of a Student's Harmonic Personality (on J. Updike's Novel “Terrorist”)

Defining factors of a student's personality development requires analyzing the notion of professional health of a teacher. Urgent social instability, social changes, environmental problems and changes in educational policy influence both teachers and students. Professionalism of teachers is necessary condition for young people's resistance to negative psychological impacts. The scope of our work is a generalized approach to uncover connections between teachers’ professionalism and their contributions to the development of the student's harmonic personality. We analyze several criteria of teachers’ level of professionalism including their moral intentions, drawing on previous work of Russian, U.S., German, Turkish, etc. scholars. We use correlative analysis, comparative, structural-typological methods, and structural-poetical method while engaging literary images of a teacher and a student from the novel “Terrorist” by well-known American writer J. Updike. The results demonstrate that the development of a student's harmonic personality is closely connected to the professional health of a teacher. We find that the professional health of a teacher is the base for the harmonious development of the cognitive, psychological and moral characteristics of a student's personality.