Psychological and Pedagogical Problems of Beginning Lecturers and Postgraduate Students at Engineering University

Abstract

The paper discusses the psychological and pedagogical problems faced by beginning teachers and postgraduate students in their pedagogical work at an engineering and technical university. The study shows that the most significant problems concern the variety of the roles of the respondents and their lack of psychological and pedagogical training. Postgraduate students and beginning teachers must be engineers, researchers and educators at the same time. The paper demonstrates the interrelation between the role positions of a teacher at a technical university. However, to implement these roles, a specialist has to have a diverse set of competences. Every specialist is more apt to one or another of these roles. Moreover, the role of an educator is not of top priority for postgraduate students. In the authors’ opinion, this calls for correcting the way training is organized for future teachers of an engineering and technical university with due consideration of personal priorities in their professional work and the needs of universities for replenishing their pedagogical cadres with specialists educated in accordance with the necessities of the time.