Keyword: «faculty professional identity»

This article studies the issue of professional identity of faculty, which is considered to be one of the most essential types of identity of those who are currently working in higher education sphere. The topicality of this study shows itself in growing importance of professional life of a modern individual, with this undoubtedly referring to the faculty bearing their own responsibility for professional development, acting in the conditions of longer career paths as well as adjusting the directions of their professional trajectories. Being the leading kind of a mature person performance and representing his or her universal function, professional activity demonstrates sense-making nature, giving an opportunity of finding existence reasons particularly in professional activity and in matters related thereto. It is the professional performance which allows a person to express oneself and also structures time and formulates personalized meanings. Rapid transformations of contemporary society, labor market and educational environment changes bring professional identity of a university teacher to the fore as this kind of identity is capable of fully reflecting an individual’s personal values as well as aims and intentions. With that said, professional identity is subject to development throughout the whole life, being the process of continuing interpretation of the accumulated experience and knowledge. This research is aimed at demonstrating greater importance of the faculty professional identity compared to the other types of identities. With the help of the survey conducted with 127 objects-sample as well as using the quantitative method, we concluded that in the process of induced and spontaneous identification, the majority of the surveyed teachers opted for professional identity as the main type thereof. Theoretical value of the given research could find its expression in focusing more on faculty professional identity issues as well as its impact on teachers’ performance efficacy and overall well-being. In terms of practical importance, the conclusions made can be applied in the course of educating would-be teachers and postgraduates and also when devising advanced training courses for the experts in the given sphere.