RURAL STUDENT AND TEACHER IN THE MODERN GLOBAL WORLD: ASPECTS OF TEACHER'S PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE

The importance of this issue is determined by globalisation process in the society and changing of rural cultural environment and population in different ways. The dynamic changes bring forward more multiform and complicated requirements for students, teachers and the whole system of education as well. These developmental tendencies in rural environments raise a necessity to treat education more and more thoroughly as a personality upbringing process and process for promoting social development and equity in a linguistically and culturally diverse world. Aim of the study is to identify general problems in rural schools and to analyze some aspects of rural school teachers' professional competence in order to provide acquiring the education content and to develop students' local cultural identity in the modern global world as well as to form rural schools and classes as cultural organizations in local cultural environment. Theoretical framework of the study is based on different theories of teaching/ learning as a cognitive and communication process. The theoretical assumptions are mainly connected with empirical experience in the stage of basic education.