UDK 371.1

EDN YBEJXL

 

Personalities

 

Valentina Furmanova: memories and reflections on the Personality, Teacher, Mentor

 

Amzarakova I. P., Babayeva R. I., Bespalova S. V., Lapteva I. V., Pakhmutova Е. D.

 

Abstraсt

In Russian humanities, the study of personality as a subject of culture in the context of the role and place of personalities in a certain era has become one of the important research areas. The figure and activities of the Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor V. P. Furmanova, known both in Russia and in Europe, deserve a deep and comprehensive study, because in her ideas and actions she was the embodiment of exemplary mentoring qualities: a teacher, linguist, world-renowned scholar, who made a significant contribution to the development of Russian methods of foreign languages teaching. Her thoughts on the trinity of intercultural communication (language — culture — subject) are of great importance for the formation of a personality who, through immersion in the culture of another language, is more clearly aware of the values of his native culture. Furmanova herself is a concentration of such culture-forming characteristics as humanism, pedagogical talent, moral aspirations, patriotism, civic activity, inexhaustible enthusiasm, indifference to socially significant problems, purposefulness, high cultural level and decency. Selfless service to the profession, wisdom, sociability and honesty in relationships, compliance with ethics and morality, managerial abilities and openness to a diverse age and status audience contributed to the fact that an outstanding teacher thought fundamentally, “lit up” with ideas, constantly gave impetus to movement, set goals and found extraordinary ways to solve professional, social, inter- and intrapersonal problems. The authors of the article analyze the social roles of V. P. Furmanova (personality, patriot, teacher, leader, scholar, mentor, social activist), presenting to a wide range of readers fragments of her interviews, memories of colleagues, students, friends and associates, reflections on what a modern mentor — a university teacher should be.

 

Keywords: The Year of Teacher and Mentor, world-renowned scholar, Valentina Furmanova, research school, intercultural communication, teaching methods, foreign languages

 

For citation: Amzarakova IP [et al.]. Valentina Furmanova: memories and reflections on the Personality, Teacher, Mentor. Center and Periphery. 2023;18(3):97—110. EDN YBEJXL

 

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Information about the authors:

Irina P. Amzarakova, Professor of Department of Foreign Linguistics and Language Theory of the Katanov Khakass State University (90 Lenin Str., Abakan 655017, Russia); Member of the Presidium of the Interregional Association of German Teachers (6 Miklukho-Maklay Str., Moscow 117198, Russia), Doctor of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4287-8762, ip50@mail.ru

Raisa I. Babayeva, Professor of Department of Foreign Philology of the Ivanovo State University (39 Ermak Str., Ivanovo 153025, Russia), Doctor of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4501-0881, nitdaf@mail.ru

Svetlana V. Bespalova, Head of Department of German Philology of the National Research Ogarev Mordovia State University  (68 Bolshevistskaja Str., Saransk 430005, Russia), Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0529-6608, german@fld.mrsu.ru

Irina V. Lapteva, Principal Researcher — Нead of Department of Theory and History of Culture of the Research Institute of the Humanities by the Government of the Republic of Mordovia (3 L. Tolstogo Str., Saransk 430005, Russia); Professor of Department of German Philology of the National Research Ogarev Mordovia State University (68 Bolshevistskaja Str., Saransk 430005, Russia), Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Associate Professor, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0444-4237, Researcher ID: O-3676-2015, Scopus ID: 57203011236, laptevaiv@yandex.ru

Elena D. Pakhmutova, Associate Professor of Department of German Philology of the National Research Ogarev Mordovia State University (68 Bolshevistskaja Str., Saransk 430005, Russia); Мultiplicator of Goethe Institute (95а Leninsky Prospect, Moscow 119313, Russia), Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2317-4778, Scopus ID: 57211296171, pahmutova@mail.ru 

 

Contribution of the authors:

Amsarakova I. P. — collection of material on V. P. Furmanova’s social activities, scientific editing of the text;

Babaуeva R. I. — statement of the research problem, collection of material on V. P. Furmanova’s research activities, generalization of research results;

Bespalova S. V. — conducting interview with V. P. Furmanova, selection of material from her personal archive, review of her publications;

Lapteva I. V. — concept development, selection of material from V. P. Furmanova’s personal archive, scientific editing of the text;

Pakhmutova E. D. — collection of material on V. P. Furmanova’s pedagogical activities, literature review; data analysis and format editing.

 

Conflict of interests: the authors declare no conflict of interests.

 

The authors have read and approved the final version of the manuscript.

 

The article was submitted 23.05.2023; accepted for publication 06.06.2