ETHOS OF CALLING IN EDUCATION: TEACHING AND LEARNING

The main conditions of the ethics of E. Levinas in their interpretation concerning the practice of educational process presented in the paper of C. Joldersma “A Levinasian Ethics for Education's Commonplaces: Between Calling and Inspiration” are following: education presumes ethical responsibility, personal involvement of a teacher into caring about the good and wellbeing of a student, education is based on confidence, openness and understanding of ethical asymmetry of the relations of a teacher and a learner. Those principles and values define the contemporary ethos of teaching and learning. On the basis of own research the author analyzes the opinions of Ukrainian teachers about the essence and importance of calling in education. The study also defines the determinative ethical directions of the ethos of learners.