Risks of pedagogical profession: the determination of deformations by the sphere of teacher’s activity

Abstract

Risks of personality’s professionalization in mass professions are usually associated with the duration of the realization of the main professional functions, without considering the specifics of the risks within the framework of individual specializations. Perhaps this explains, in practice, the lack of researches studying the risks of transformation of the personality of teachers working with different contingent of students. This problem is particularly relevant and urgent for teachers of social asylums, whose activities are highly socially significant because of their considerable contribution to the correction and introduction of customers into society, support of their personal development. The importance of this problem solving is due to the fact that employees of social asylums are in conditions that require, first of all, the manifestation of high moral responsibility for the health and life of pupils. The risks of this profession also include permanent stress that occurs even in the simplest interaction with customers and their representatives, continuous monitoring of problems encountered by customers. As a result of a long stay in this profession, there is a transformation of professionalism, which gives rise to various professional deformations. All this also caused an urgent necessity to study the peculiarities of the risks of long-term realization of the functions of a teacher of a social asylum, to analyze the determinants causing professional deformations. Accordingly, the aim of the work was to study the risks of long-term professional activity of teachers of social