The capacity of Kazakhstan university teachers for innovative activities: scientific and practical aspects

Abstract

This article discusses issues of university teachers’ readiness to innovative activities in Kazakhstan. The relevance of studying the problem of university teachers’ capacity for innovative activities is necessitated by modern requirements concerning the personality of a teacher in the area of higher education. The purpose of the study is to determine the degree of the capacity of university teachers in Kazakhstan for innovative activities. The article presents an overview of the scientific works of foreign and domestic scholars written about the innovative activities of university teachers. To obtain the results the theoretical (analysis and synthesis of scholarly works of domestic and foreign authors on the research problem) and empirical (questionnaires, pedagogical observation) methods have been used in the study. A survey was conducted with instructors of 10 different universities in Kazakhstan in order to identify the degree of readiness of university teachers for innovation. As a basis of the university teacher’s capacity structure, the approach created by Slastenin V.A. and Podymova L.S. which includes motivational, creative, technological, and reflective components is accepted considering the main characteristics of the innovative activity of a university teacher.