The aim of this research is to establish proper external and internal conditions for conducting pedagogical activity that reveal the value basis of professional education. The research justifies the need to analyse the guidelines of a person’s professional self-identity, contents of professional activity motivation, peculiarities of maintaining the mental and physical health of a person, and the capacity of an educational institution’s organisational culture. A number of indicators of value mechanisms of a teacher’s professional longevity is revealed. A diagnostic program of the project, aimed at studying the value content of a teacher’s behaviour strategies during the process of professional activity, was designed. The content of the hypothesis is connected with the assumption of value-semantic inter-conditionality of professional longevity. The research revealed significant interrelations of professional longevity with some psychological factors of value-semantic nature. Analysis of the organisational culture of an educational institution as a factor providing (preventing) the professional longevity of a teacher was carried out. The dominant tendency of describing the interconnection between an educational institution’s organisational culture and the level of emotional burnout syndrome of teachers working within certain cultural models is revealed.

The article reflects the problem of social adaptation and career guidance of children with hearing impairment through the practice of volunteering. The results of a diagnostic study of children with hearing impairment are shown to identify an orientation towards communicative professions, communicative and organizational inclinations for their participation in volunteer activities. Conclusions are drawn about the need to create and organize a favourable environment for the socialization and personal growth of children with hearing impairment.

This paper describes the results of a study of the process of professional self-determination of adolescents with hearing impairment. The authors dealing with this problem in the current century (Yu.S. Pyashkur, V.V. Tuarmensky and others) identified a number of features of the personal development of pupils of special educational institutions of adolescence and youth. Thus, communicative competence plays a significant role in the professional self-determination of adolescents with hearing impairments. The hypothesis about the special role of communicative competence in the process of professional self-determination of deaf adolescents was tested in the course of a study of students in a boarding school for children with hearing impairment aged 14–18 (N=23). The features of the professional inclinations of these students were revealed, a comparative analysis was carried out between the groups of adolescents and high school students. Based on the data obtained, a conclusion was made about the communicative orientation of activity as one of the most important targets for the professional self-determination of hearing-impaired adolescents. On the basis of the data obtained, a conclusion was made about the communicative competence of activity as one of the most important targets for professional self-determination of hearing-impaired adolescents.

The article discusses the study results of the Russian teachers’ professional longevity. The authors try to highlight the role of value-semantic factors that determine the teacher’s orientation to the productive extension of his professional path beyond the retirement age. The study results, in particular, the analysis of data from in-depth interviews with teachers of retirement age (n = 40) allows us to assert a significant contribution of value-semantic factors to the overall picture of the process of a teacher’s transition to the post-professional period of his life. In particular, three main transition strategies are identified: 1. Postponement; 2. Smooth transition; 3. Forced finish. Each strategy corresponds to a certain type of indicators of a value-semantic nature: attitude to health, attitude to the level of one’s professional efficiency, combining professional and personal goals. There is a high diagnostic value of the metaphor method in the study of the respondents’ professional path.

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