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.
