Open AccessChildren’s Reading Acmeologist: to the Question of Tutorship for Readers’ Development
Author(s) -
Tatiyana G. Firsova
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
izvestiâ saratovskogo universiteta. novaâ seriâ. seriâ akmeologiâ obrazovaniâ. psihologiâ razvitiâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2541-9013
pISSN - 2304-9790
DOI - 10.18500/2304-9790-2013-2-1-103-109
Subject(s) - competence (human resources) , psychology , reading (process) , cognition , social competence , pedagogy , social psychology , social change , linguistics , political science , philosophy , neuroscience , law
The article is based on the data of sociological and psychological pedagogical polls of the citizens of Russia and results of the educational program PISA-2009 and states the presence of reading crisis, decrease of the level of readers’ culture and readers’ competence among Russians. The author detects the set of objective and subjective reasons that cause modern situation of readers’ negativism. He offers conceptual characteristics of the terms «reading», «readers’ development», «readers’ cognition», «readers’ communication», and «readers’ competence». The article shows that readers’ competence is characterized as the factor of social risk, threat to the national wellbeing. The author explains the urgency of the introduction of a new specialty «reading acmeologist» into school practice. He gives the characterization of professional skills of this kind of specialist.