Cross-national Examination of Teachers' Intercultural Values

The relevance of the studied problem is substantiated by the fact that social living conditions, the vector of society and human requirements development which predetermine transformation of modern teachers' values changed in the post-Soviet area over a quarter of a century after the USSR collapsed. The research aims to single out cross-cultural features of social and professional values and valuable orientations of teachers - practitioners in Russia, Belarus, Moldova and Armenia. The paper covers the results of comparative analysis of teachers' social and professional values and valuable orientations hierarchy; system-forming values and valuable orientations in invariant models of a value system of teachers - representatives of different cultures are revealed. Obtained results of cross-cultural research enable to determine perspective directions of teachers' professional activity efficiency increase.