Sketch of research of semantic structures of the personality of the teacher

Abstract

The paper describes semantic structures of the teacher personality in the framework of the complete level theory of the personality by B. S. Bratus’ which has also more poetical naming, i.e. “the semantic vertical”. In this approach the personality of the teacher as a career professional is a special case of the personality organization in the psychological meaning where the main task is allocation of that concerns personality proper without identifying the teacher, the scholar or the doctor, but to the personality as to absolutely special psychological form.

In the semantic architecture of the teacher’s personality developed on the basis of psychological approach except the general sense of activity (e.g. “for the sake of what?”) the following semantic levels are identified:

• teacher’s attitude towards the student as to Another (to the Doppelgaener, the Interlocutor and the Person), 
• personal sense, reverberated in the teacher’s mind via the transformed image of the student, 
• dominance and “channels” of acquisition and response which distribute energy within teacher-student, 
• personal negentropy (negative entropy) allowing to speak about to what the teacher will do: depress or develop student’s personality.
  

The results of the empirical research with the group of teachers are described where the «Technique of studying semantic levels in the personality structure of the teacher» was used and the psychological portraits of teachers by the expert psychologists employed with educational institutions. 

The typology of semantic structures of the teacher in the “developing – reproducing – destructive” model is presented.