I. YAKOVLEV CHUVASH STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

faculty professional trajectory, professional identity of university teachers, educational environment, professional life, professional development

The given article raises the issue of faculty professional trajectory and a potential focus thereof. Various societal transformations couldn’t help affecting the profession of university teachers and the latter, in contrast to a conventional view, can also boast career development and growth. Since it is the faculty who form values and perspectives of new generations, transferring necessary knowledge and competences and ‘molding’ future workforce ready for contemporary challenges, relevance of this study is attributed to the necessity of clearer definition of a university teacher professional trajectory, which will equip the faculty with the opportunity of goal setting, efficient professional development and higher efficacy of their performance.

Through the analysis of faculty professional trajectory concept both synchronically and diachronically as well as taking into account the way this concept was developed by both foreign and Russian researchers, we provide a more comprehensive interpretation thereof, with the role of university teachers’ professional identity being emphasized. As a result, having at their disposal a more cognizable concept of professional trajectory, university teachers will be able to perform with more efficacy, simultaneously obtaining the opportunity of diverse types of professional growth, personal fulfillment and employment stability.

Польская Светлана Сергеевна – кандидат филологических наук, доцент кафедры английского языка № 5 Московского государственного института международных отношений (Университета) МГИМО (У), г. Москва, Россия, http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8782-7400, polskaya7@gmail.com