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There are presented in the article the results of the studies concerning formation of the «scientific school» conception in the historical and philosophical aspects. There is proposed a wording of this conception taking into account the requirements of the science and education modernization, as well as a complex of criteria for its identification. There is also offered a model of the conception from the system approach standpoint.

There are analyzed the changes in the subject-object domain of the socio-ontological studies of the educational sphere, which have made topical the philosophic-methodological component of the theorization process. One of the conditions of the formation of the modern research strategies is the usage of adequate methodology according to one of the main philosophical models of the Universe - the dialectic or dualistic one.

The author examines some special features of integration as interaction of a specific type and as the process of adaptation of the subjects of the market-oriented economy. In the article the definition of synergetic conception is studied. A special attention is paid to the synergetic effect of integration of science, education, industry and business. A specific nature of the synergetic processes in pedagogy is analyzed. The synergetic conception is presented as the most important system-forming factor of building the modern innovation-oriented higher education.

The paper describes the problem of transformation of the institution of education which experiences a transition process from the standardized to the open educational space. Some new aspects of this transformation have been distinguished, which are connected with modification of the socio-cultural context of the modern society and are conditioned by the intensification of information-related transformations and the change of the role of knowledge.  In the paper a definition of the notion of knowledge is given; the problem of a creative subject is outlined as an answer to the challenge faced by modern civilization conditioned by the increase of demand in the knowledge growth  'from inside' rather than its introduction 'from outside'. It is shown that the content of the modern institution of education is being evolved from the model objectively created for the object of teaching to a model of the subject's 'lively' knowledge of educational experience.

The article is devoted to the distance education and the topical problems arising in distance training: on what principles the distance training is based; how the selection of its content is performed; what forms of organization it presupposes; whether the telecommunications reflecting the condition of modern society influence the meanings, purposes and content of education. The changes in the content, forms and methods of the distance training result in new requirements to the competence of the teacher.

The article conceptualizes the idea of truth, analyses the basic conceptions of truth and the ways to test the genuineness of knowledge. The goal of the article is to determine the causes and sources of the diversity of the truth conceptions. Setting this goal is generated by the education and science methodology which includes the standards of choosing a point of view on the considered object. To reach this goal, the issue of the source of the author's (researcher's) truth conception is discussed. The author answers in the negative to the possibility of giving a univocal definition of the truth category; and in order to study the truth pluralism concept the author demonstrates its difference from the rivalry of various theories on the same subject.

The article is devoted to the analysis of effectiveness of the Siberian humanists from the higher education and academic sectors of science in the grant competitions of the Russian Foundation for Humanities (RFH) during two crisis years. Comparison of the results of participation in the RFH grant competitions of the researchers from the higher educational and academic institutes is carried out on the background of revealing the negative tendencies of decreasing effectiveness of the entire Siberian humanitarian scientific community. There is considered in detail the proportion of the supported academic and higher education projects according to the kinds of grant competitions (basic, regional, and additional ones), the branches of humanities, and also the regions of Siberia. A great volume of the illustrative material provides vivid characteristic of the revealed tendencies.

In the article there is studied education as a system representing the branched network of numerous social structures: properly educational, enlightenment, research establishments whose activity is determined by the necessity of social manufacture of knowledge and skills and their transfer from generation to generation. In modern conditions it is necessary to develop an innovative-research system of professional training as the most progressive and competitive. Today there are being formed such conditions of activity of the research establishments and higher educational institutions that their interaction becomes one of decisive preconditions of their survival and subsequent growth. As a base model of university it is necessary to accept the research university model, which is based on the integration of educational process and scientific research as the leading methodological principle.

In the article we analyze the possibilities of application of the innovative technologies in the system of higher professional technical education.  More specifically, the content of the article is connected with consideration of a set of humanitarian disciplines, in the process of whose studying there are used some innovative technologies.

The work describes the research results concerning new scientific knowledge about the getting-ahead training at the rural small school; there are revealed the сomponents of the getting-ahead training facilities; there is introduced the concept of getting-ahead training. An analysis is presented of the decisive role of the countryside ungraded school in preservation of the native people settlements, in creation of a cultural-educational space within the countryside society.

In the article, from the positions of innovative development of the person in the structure of united organization of the life of the person, society and nature, with taking into consideration the principle of hierarchy of levels of management and regulation of subsystems of the human organism, there is proposed a model of innovative development of educational systems. The model can be used for organization of the person' way of life in the system of education and other areas of social life in the conditions of innovative development of economy and the society life in general.

The aim of the article is to consider the ways of forming the creative ability of the higher education teachers. Using his experience in engineering esthetics, the author defines the forms and the ways of development of imagination, the aesthetic and artistic taste among the students. In their future professional activity, it will be useful for the students to know how to design engineering systems using aesthetics.

On the basis of a epistemological  pattern formation of abstract concepts to higher levels of complexity, reflecting the reality of consciousness, was described complication of the logic of information representations in the process of growing up, repeating the contents of the historic concepts of complications of this subject area, stated in accordance with the mental age varies course content computer science (for junior, middle and upper classes of the school and beyond) is also shown limitations of the information.

In the article there are considered the essence and conditionality of implementation of the competence-based approach to the educational process of the teachers training. There are outlined the methodological approaches and principles of the teachers training process.

The article raises the problem of understanding the axiological status of the text competence which determines the quality of the text activity, so topical in the conditions of modern socio-cultural situation. The text competence is seen as a system of sub-competences which correlates with certain stages of the rhetorical canon, which is recognized today as an effective technology of the text-formation.

The article substantiates some value-related reference points in modern Russian philological education, which have been formed in the conditions of the competence-based approach. The main attention hereby is paid to the problem of formation and development of the textual competence of the future specialists-philologists. This is the quality which is more and more on demand in many fields of professional activities. The work represents an attempt of integrated approach to the problem of the textual competence formation, which presupposes combining efforts in many spheres of humanitarian knowledge.

The article aims at doing research into possibilities of regenerative technologies in forming responsible behaviour of the elderly, when receiving their education. The article is devoted to the problem of building the competence of responsible behaviour in the context of developing the competency-building approach in gerontological education. The principles and contents of the process of forming responsible behaviour of the elderly during their study at People's Faculty at university are considered. The authors prove the possibility of applying regenerative technologies in building the competence of responsible behaviour within the framework of gerontological educational space.

The article raises a question on the place of grammar oriented towards language activities in developing philological competence. Theoretical basics and principles of practical activities' organization are considered within one of the central linguistic courses - morphology of modern Russian language. Ways to use achievements of modern linguistics in modeling of a fragment of integrated analysis of belles-lettres text are analyzed.

In the article there are considered various approaches to revealing the principles of modern education and the international intercultural interaction in the educational sphere in the beginning of XXI century. There are studied various points of view on formation of the principles of international cooperation in the sphere of education. The question is raised which world-outlook basis of education - in the form of a scientific picture of the world or a general picture of the world - can become the most promising in XXI century. The role of philosophy in understanding this issue is shown. There are revealed the world-outlook and philosophical bases of modern education in the field of intercultural interaction of the countries of the East and West.

Consideration of the concepts of education of the East and West in the general and special aspects is connected with the search of integral knowledge about education, providing people with cultural-educational, spiritually-moral potential, manifold socialization and worthy conflict-free existence in the society of the XXI century. The methodological basis of understanding the integration processes is the idea of dialectic unity of education and society. Education has few chances of successful development without favorable social conditions; neither society, without educated people who have been brought up by an integrated education system incorporating the best achievements of the Eastern and Western educational experience. Information technologies today turn the techniques and experiences of training and educating people in educational institutions into common property of the majority of the countries, causing the formation of a uniform educational space and also the necessity of philosophical reconsideration of educational processes.

The author considers one of the most important projects of solving the global problems of mankind  the sustainable development project. Тhe sustainable development ideology takes root both in the West and in the Еast. However, the West cannot develop any effective policy of sustainable development without interaction with the East; the dialogue of cultures is necessary. The author also analyzes the prospects of sustainable development of Russia.

The article is devoted to the research of Western and Eastern education, revealing what is general and special about them. A great attention is given to understanding these problems through a prism of historical and social-spiritual development. It is emphasized that Eastern education is characterized by rigid requirements to follow the traditional norms, customs and canons, whereas more liberal search of truth is inherent in the Western educational system. While Western education gravitated to the school form of training, subdivision of this school into classes and appointment of the teachers for each separate subject, the Eastern educational system preferred the individual dialogue system. The XXI-st century and the world globalization are setting before Western and Eastern education some common problems, namely, the necessity of training the professionally knowing person, the humane and harmoniously developed personality. This leads to the need for synthesis of these two education systems.

In the article there are considered the problems of interaction between the systems of safety of the state and education, and also the role of safety in the increasing the adaptation efficiency of the state to the internal and external changes. It is indicated that the safety system acts as one of the major means which give the chance to education to adapt more operatively and with high probability of success in the transforming external world. The author investigates interrelation between educational space and the system of safety. The latter fosters formation of objective concepts about the development parameters of the Russian state and society. The author pays attention to the problems of integration of educational systems of the East and West.

In the paper the author carries out an investigation of the specificity of education informatization in connection with building the innovative education in the context of the East-West polarization. There are indicated some perspectives of building the innovative education, science and economy in the conditions of information society with taking into account spiritual and social-cultural peculiarities of the Russian educational system.

In the article the models of development of the Russian and American education on the example of formation of elite schools are analyzed. There are considered the distinctions connected with the national historical traditions, mentality, economic and political structure of these countries, the mobilization or the innovative types of development. The author notes that, though the models of development of the Russian and American education were initially opposite to each other, now there are being observed similar problems in them which testify to the most severe crisis of the national educational systems. A conclusion is made about what kind of state policy should Russia have in the field of elite education.

The paper is dedicated to a comparative analysis of the modern historiography of the education quality in the Western and domestic educational traditions in the context of their interaction. The results of such analysis will contribute to the social-philosophy comprehension of the phenomena and processes that take place in the modern system of domestic higher professional education. As the initial period of investigation we take the second half of the XX century, because A. G. Bermus notes that exactly in this period in the Western educational tradition there started to form an independent direction of scientific research and administrative activity in the system of higher professional education connected with monitoring and managing the education quality.

In article the author considers philosophical-historical development of the categories of coming into being, space and values in the matter of moral education of a person. At the heart of moral education of a person lies the idea of formation of adequate semantic units for life of a person. The article is devoted to theoretical analysis of the four approaches to a problem of a person as an open, active, self-developing system: anthropologic, synergetic, culturologic and informologic. The author emphasizes understanding of childhood as a special complete social phenomenon with a certain duration in time, considering children not as potential adults, but as already fully valuable person. Methodological ideas are offered to consider formation of semantic units for life of pupile's personality in the framework of the four presented approaches.

Actuality of a problem of formation a successful man, successful personality, successful professional in the modern communication and socio-cultural space is concentrated on the scientific and research investigation of the modern socio- psychological aspect of such concepts as success and successfulness, socio-physiological features and people's attitudes, possibilities of creation new technologies, their adaptation and implementation into the process of training of the future specialist, self-actualization of a person in the ordinary life and in the professional activity.

The article gives the description of the process of training the teacher who has the complex of qualities of a cultivated person and represents the national culture and mentality. The authors propose the model of a modern teacher, college-leaver, as a cultivated person and describe the system of the pedagogical supporting as one of the circumstances by forming of future teacher's qualities of a cultivated person in educational process of the teacher's training college.

In the philosophical and psychological-pedagogical science simultaneously with the problem of knowing the real person becomes a relevant issue image of man. To adapt to the educational process and harmonization with the current rapidly changing scientific and technological society, people need special skills. These abilities are given to him by nature like the makings, but their development is largely determined by the environment, the communities in which socialization occur.
The reason for creating the modern image of a man serving a new philosophy of humanity and the most common of modern psychology of personality.

Transformation of modern society reveals the topicality of the personality's socialization problems. Now there is considered differently the correlation between biological and social factors, education and upbringing in the socialization process. In the paper the concept of the gender socialization is analyzed from the positions of social philosophy. The author quotes various approaches to the process of socialization, analyses the correlation of socialization and gender socialization, as a whole and its part. In the article the influence of the family and school, as the main institutions of socialization, is studied through various periods of history.

In the article there is presented the current state of the gender approach in social knowledge and Russian education. The goal of the article is specification of the methodological bases of the modern gender research and the gender approach in education. The author systematizes the modern methodological principles of the gender approach, proposes some criteria of establishing the gender approach in the education system, and outlines some problems of its integration.

In clause one of actual innovative directions of modern domestic education - system of separately-parallel or gender educational process. Is analyzed. The author of clause brings to a focus to that prominent aspect of the given problem, that the organization of educational process should be built by a principle: « it is trained separately, we bring up together». The author analyzes results of experimental work of educational establishments in a direction of formation of system of separately-parallel education.