ETHNIC DESIGN FUTURE TECHNOLOGY TEACHER TRAINING IN THE PROCESS OF MAKING A KNOT DOLL OF POLTAVA REGION

On the basis of the categories ‘ethnic design,’ ‘technology teacher training,’ ‘a knot doll of Poltava region,’ ‘making a knot doll’, the article considers the importance of ethnic design future technology teacher training by means of making a knot doll of Poltava region. The content of the category ‘future technology teacher’s competence in the application of ethnic design in professional activities’ is stated; it is defined as a complex quality of the future teacher’s personality, aimed at perception, implementation, improvement, and development of innovative methods of presentation of the achievements of ethnic design in everyday practical professional activities in order to effectively and efficiently solve pedagogical problems. The article is aimed at expanding and deepening the issues of ethnic design teacher training, as well as researching the process of making a knot doll of Poltava region. Theoretical analysis of the problem in the professional activity of future technology teacher training has revealed that in recent decades in pedagogical theory and practice much attention has been paid to the artistic and aesthetic aspect of the specialist’s creative personality, mostly by means of decorative and applied arts; instead, research has only recently begun on the use of ethnic design in the process of future technology teacher training. An analysis of recent research and publications has shown that the issue of future technology teacher training by means of making a knot doll, which is an essential component of future technology teachers’ ethnic design skills and mastering the knowledge and skills of making a knot doll of Poltava region is a sign of skill. The study has concluded that the process of making a knot doll of Poltava region can be a tool of ethic design training; it acts as a complex type of creative activity at the intersection of several types of folk art and more broadly - at the intersection of pedagogy and psychology, ethnography and art history. Prospects for further research in the selected issue may be a thorough study of the role and place of the knot doll of Poltava region as a phenomenon of ethnic design and technological education.