STAFFING FOR TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN HIGHER AGRICULTURAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS OF UKRAINE IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE XX CENTURY

Abstract

The article is devoted to the characterization of staffing for teaching foreign languages in higher agricultural educational institutions of Ukraine in the second half of the twentieth century. It has been determined that staffing was an important factor in the reconstruction after the Second World War and further development of foreign language education in higher agricultural educational institutions of Ukraine. Positive tendencies and failings of personnel potential development of foreign languages departments of higher agricultural educational institutions of Ukraine are revealed. Positive tendencies towards improving the staffing of foreign language education in higher agricultural educational institutions of Ukraine during the studied period should be considered as: refusal to combine jobs and transition to the work of teachers on a permanent basis; overcoming one-sided specialization of teachers and providing a reasonable ratio in the teaching of foreign languages; formation of the personnel core from people who worked for agrarian higher schools for a long time and established the traditions and schools of teaching foreign languages in accordance with the profile of their educational insitutions; growth of professional and methodical skills of the personnel. Business trips abroad turned out to be an important form of professional development of teachers of foreign language departments of higher agricultural educational institutions. Since the 1950’s teachers were actively recruited as translators. The shortcomings of the development of staffing of the departments of foreign languages of higher agricultural educational institutions of Ukraine should include isolation from the leading world educational institutions, inability to maintain contacts with foreign colleagues, weak research work, and a low percentage of high-level specialists. Persons with academic titles and degrees began to appear at the foreign languages departments of
higher agricultural educational institutions only in the 1970’s.