Spiritual and Moral Foundations of Craft Profession Training

Abstract

The relevance of the problem under consideration stemmed from the need of revival
of craft education system in Russia which focuses on training personnel for small
handicraft enterprises, and it is also very important to identify, to preserve and to adapt
it to the modern realities of pedagogical experience which was gained by the
vocational education system in the past. The purpose of the article is to substantiate
the need for development of spiritual, moral, organizational and pedagogical
foundations of craft vocational education development in Russia theoretically and
methodologically. The central approach to the investigation of this problem is the study
and generalization of pedagogical experience which makes it possible to substantiate
the tendencies of formation of a new type of vocational education in Russia. The result
of the study was the substantiation of the key qualities of a master craftsman as a
creative thinker and craft labour as a man-making system of knowledge and practical
experience forming “multidimensional human integrity”. The statement that modern
craft education should take into account the productive and transforming essence of a
person as fully as possible, and thus, it should be acmeologically oriented can be
considered the key conclusion. The materials of the article can be useful to practitioners
and vocational education scientists, teachers and postgraduate students who are
interested in the development of teaching system and personnel training system.