Home – Home – Jornals – "Philosophy of Education" 2011 number 3

The article is devoted to the 80^th anniversary of academician Valentin Afanasievich Koptyug's birth.

The subject of the article is the opportunities of solving, by the Russian state, the problems of educational and moral development of modern youth. The author establishes casual relations between the reforms of the contemporary education system and the transformation of social and economic bases of the Russian society, and also explains the reasons of the pedagogical community's critical attitude to the initiatives of the state.

In the article there are considered the problems of formation of the modern strategies of education, which are based on the systemic principles and the principles of conformity to culture. Social systems, such as society, culture, education, are living system, self-developing according to nonlinear laws. To forecast the direction of their development, it is necessary to take into account such unpredictable factors as creativity, freedom of will, and self-determination.

The aim of the article is to search for the ways of increasing efficiency of foreign language training of the students of the technical higher education institutions. The author suggests incorporation of modern informational technologies into the practical foreign language course as an instrument of formation of foreign language professional communicative and information competences within the system of higher education. This can also be a basis for lifelong education of the specialist.

The author analyzes the requirements to the formation of educational content in the higher education institution from the positions of humanitarian approach. The specificity of humanitarian approach as a methodological basis to the formation of educational content is thoroughly studied in the article. A complex of requirements to the educational content is substantiated; an invariant structure of the educational content is determined; the interaction between these requirements and the graduate's key competencies which he/she must possess is revealed. Thus, the author has substantiated the educational content structure based on the requirements, constructed from the positions of humanitarian approach

The problems of personality socialization in the conditions of innovative educational institutions and the methods of solving these problems are considered in the article. The analysis of activities of some innovative educational institutions of Tyumen and Khanty-Mansiysk is presented.

The article deals with determination of the principles of standardization of higher education in the philosophical and educational terms. There are offered the principles of consistency, adequacy, proactiveness, efficiency, personal orientation, adequacy, necessity, uniqueness, variety, and self-renewal.

In the article, there is studied the development of the «private education» category. The author shows that the content of the theoretical concept of «private education» is essentially influenced by socio-economic and cultural factors. In the article there is substantiated that at the formation stage the philosophy of private education coincided with the philosophy of education and training. Nowadays private education is a form of education, supplementing public education and solving such social tasks that at the given moment remain unsolved by the public education.

A specific role of research education under the conditions of the knowledge culture growth is substantiated in the article. The criterion of scientific character of modern education is formulated. The key notions of the new cultural paradigm are described: research type of socialization, cognitive competence, cognitively comfortable educational conditions, cultural diversity, and cognitive mobility. The main problems connected with the acknowledgement of the research education as the basic form of school and university education are determined. There is shown the interconnection between the common technological field of the culture of knowledge and the period of professional growing-up of the personality and the innovative status of educational knowledge.

The article discusses the functioning of higher education in Russia in the institutional aspect. It is noted that in some studies on this subject there is shown a tendency of non-distinction of the technical and technological approaches, the applied aspects of the educational activities and its content-related, essential foundations. On the background of changes in higher education, acting in response to the challenges of civilization, it becomes increasingly relevant to model the social processes, allowing to identify the integrative principles and to describe the system of connections, which characterizes the interaction of education and the progress of the society. An essential feature of contemporary Russian society is its multi-structural character, which needs to be understood in the educational aspect. With the help of the structural-functional approach, there is studied the phenomenon of the Russian students.

In the article the phenomenon of virtual personality is considered. On the basis of methodological approaches of postmodernism, symbolic interactionism and the studies of domestic philosophy, an attempt is undertaken to consider the phenomenon of virtual personality as a new image of the information civilization. The carried-out analysis leads the author to the conclusion about the necessity of social control over the work in the Internet, on one hand, and of the socio-philosophical analysis of the phenomenon of virtual personality, on the other. The article is connected with consideration of the problems of existence of virtual personality. Virtual personality is understood as my vision of myself as somebody else.

Formation of an information society makes essential impact on professional sphere. A consequence of it is increase of a role of studying of informatics and information technology in universities.
The purpose of training to informatics and information technology of students of high schools is formation of their information culture. One of directions of development of higher education in the Russian Federation is the competence approach. It causes changes in the essence of information culture of university students.
The article reveals the essence of the concept of information culture of the students in the context of the competence approach. The differences and the relationship between the concepts of «information competent» and «information culture».

The article discusses the concept of methodology, including the methodologies of education, educational theory, law and legal regulation of education, their relationships and position in the overall methodology. Based on the content analysis of these concepts there is made a conclusion about a special position of the methodology of legal regulation of education in the general methodology and, as a consequence, about a specific nature of its content.

In the article there are considered the problems of interaction of the national safety of the state and education. It is noted that in modern conditions education becomes a more and more powerful engine of economic growth, increase of efficiency and competitiveness of Russia in the world. The author investigates interrelation of education and safety which promotes the formation of objective understanding concerning the parameters of development of the Russian state and society. The attention is paid to the problems of integration of Russian education in the European educational space.

The purpose of the paper is to study effective ways of interaction between educational system and developing civil society in modern Russia. It is postulated that uncertainty of the future is a factor substantially determining the principles of formation of new mechanisms of social interactions. It is indicated that uncertainty is not necessarily a negative factor; it can positively affect the development of culture. In this context, realization of social inquiries is a purpose of educational process. But this purpose is considered not in a strictly pragmatic sense, but, first of all, through the prism of the possible culture-formation prospects of the social organism.

The author analyzes the problem of controlling the quality of higher education in modern Russia. The article evaluates the role of the higher education institution's administrative structure in the process of raising the quality of higher education. The emphasis of the article is on the importance of competent approach in the development of educational technologies. The author analyzes possible solutions to this problem in the realm of sociology and philosophy, which give an opportunity to introduce the administrative structure of the higher education institution as a necessary element of raising the quality of today's higher education in Russia.

The author carries out a socio-philosophical analysis of the education quality, distinguishes its structural components: conditions (the health preserving technologies, psychological comfort, developing training-aid-related environment, personnel, the level of its qualification), educational process (formation of the content of pre-school education  based on integrative, developing, activity-oriented approach with the use of innovative, integrative, design technologies, the portfolio technologies). There are also distinguished the results, formulated in the catego-ries of succession, readiness to go to school, the level of relations with parents. Thus, there is substantiated a specific character of modern quality of pre-school education from the point of view of systemic and activity-oriented approach.

The author analyses the content and meanings of the modern stage of innovative development of legal culture. He also considers the influence of the contemporary federal state educational standards of higher professional education and the passed federal laws on the development of legal culture of Russian society. In the article, there are studied and compared different viewpoints of Russian scientists on the content of legal culture of lawyers as its concrete bearers. The ways of students' legal culture innovative development are indicated. As a result, there is substantiated the statement that innovative development of legal culture of Russian society depends on the activity of legislative authorities, educational structures and the law community itself.

In the present article two methodological problems are analyzed: 1)variation of the definition of the subject of political science in Russia; 2)variation of the hypothetical model of the specialist in the field of  political science in Russia.

This article deals with the issue of education in the context of the work of Jan Patocka. Education is considered in the form of three movements of human existence: receiving, reproduction and transcendence. It reveals the relationship between Patocka's theory of education as a movement of human existence and modern European traditions and discusses the meanings of this theory for today's theories on education. Education is understood as a chance to meet a generation on common ground and as a dialogue, conflict and struggle across the generations. It is also understood as a continuity of culture and discontinuity of necessary metamorphoses, as a symmetric and asymmetric relationship based on responsibility.

Body language is the most natural and most understandable dialogue in the world. The significance of the Olympic Games against the backdrop of body language is considered, as well as the role of hands in life's movement, the role of speech from the point of view of human principles.

The paper addresses the issue of theory, praxis and poiésis as manifestations of human activity and as sources of its further modifications. It deals with the application of this concept of human activity in the teaching profession. Therefore, the focus is on the most important anthropina as indispensable constants in the concept of the teaching profession. On the ground of the ethical analysis of the current situation of the world as well as that of a human being, we look for the bases of teachers professional ethics. Contemporary scholars point out the substantial connection between education and meaningful co-being, which should become a field for dialogue. It is necessary to make sure that live communication is not pushed out by parallel monologues and that those models of thinking are not expanding, which could lead to obstacles to understanding and interpretation mistakes, and which are related especially to the instant knowledge and information technology reductionism. We also deal with the shift in the notion of teaching and of the dimensions of the teaching profession. More and more widespread is the notion of the model of a so called broad profession. A teacher is a specialist whose role is to facilitate the learning process and to create friendly conditions and challenging opportunities to release the pupils / students potential. These moments can also be seen when incorporating information and communication technologies into the process of education and self-education. Implementation of ICT into tuition and creation of virtual learning environments are essential moments in the development of educational projects. The paper also deals with the axiological and ethical dimensions of the virtual learning environment. The outcome from the issue in focus is formulated in the reflection on e-learning as an educational strategy, on one hand, and as a cultural phenomenon on the other. The article closes with an outline of a structural framework of teachers‰ code of ethics.

The author analyses the content and meaning of the value-related characteristic of the artistic-industrial education, which includes three interconnected elements: the artistic-industrial education as a state value, artistic-industrial education as a social value, artistic-industrial education as a personal value. It is shown that when the question is about harmonizing the personal and state (social) educational values, the accent should be made on the latter ones.

The article is devoted to the problem of modern educational space in the context of changes having intercultural character. The author identifies and characterizes the components of modern educational space. Three components of this space are distinguished: objectively existing educational space, specially arranged educational space and subjective educational space of the individual. There is raised a problem of finding adequate ways of understanding the phenomenon and harmonization of these three spaces in the lives of pupils/students.

In the article there are specified the concept of 'polycultural education' and its principal distinction from 'multicultural' and 'polyethnic' education; the dominant goals are distinguished of polycultural education in the modern-day Russia as a factor of increasing effectiveness of education; the guidelines for this research by the scientists of our country are classified.  Drawing on the peculiarities of polycultural education in the modern-day Russia, there are suggested pedagogical conditions for construction an optimal model of education in the context of polyculture.

The author carries out a historical-pedagogical analysis of the general and special educational systems within the scope of the changing paradigm in the period of formation of inclusive education both in Russian and international educational communities. The concept of periodization of the evolution of the public attitude towards the needs of handicapped people, elaborated by N. N. Malafeev, Professor of Russian Academy of Sciences, is at the heart of the analysis. There have been examined some prerequisites for the rapprochement between general and special educational systems as a tendency toward formation of inclusive education at the present stage of the society development.

The article concentrates on the following: to explain the relevance of expanding and improving the interdisciplinary relations; to eliminate duplication in the process of teaching humanities and legal sciences; to define the importance and relevance of understanding philosophically the most acute and actual problems in the course of Russian history and political science; to review forms, methods and recommendations for improving the quality of teaching, engaging students in the studying of the latest fundamental research of Russian and foreign scholars of the Russian and, particularly, Siberian history; to emphasize the necessity of objective self-assessment of the teacher performance and of raising the humanities status.

The main aim of the article is to explore the multilayered definition of education as a system. To achieve this aim, the author studies traditional systematic approaches to education. Education is viewed as a system with many corresponding aspects. The possibility to see the integrity of different concepts is investigated in the article. The analysis of the typical researchers' ways to determine the education system purpose as well as education content, technology and organization makes the author of the article declare the structure of the educational space to be dual. The educational space consists of two types of systems which are called dictative and enthusiastic. The specific features and common basics of each type are explored in the work.

There are shown in the article the bases of formal methodology for a monitoring system; the principles of its structure and functional organization. There are suggested the grounds for its classification, taking into account the emergence of its constituent elements as well as requirements to design including development stages, the use of methods and tools for evaluation of programs.

In this article there is presented a model of forming the preparedness of the students to the didactic research in the process of realizing private methods of education. The model is based on a complex of methodological methods and principles, pedagogical conditions; it represents a set of interconnected structural components.

The author analyzes the state of the problem of pre training of students at the present stage of development of the education system. The paper studied the nature of the organization of pre training, its content, the features of the basic model of pre preparation and models of pre preparation of a separate domain of knowledge, revealed the continuity of the concepts of profiling and career guidance as the key in shaping the willingness of young people to choose the profile and the profession.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the idea of world creation as a linguistic phenomenon from the positions of ethical-philosophical worldview. The issue of natural language reconstruction is being examined; moreover, the attention is paid to the comprehension of an individual creation with the help of one's language in combination with the idea of subjective world-perception, which is based on the composite process of reality-cognition, including the capability of the person to bring out one's potential as well as to control the process itself. The author formulates a hypothesis that there is a strong connection between various sides of reality and the influence of language on this reality.

The article considers bilingualism in all its aspects, examines the basic directions of studying bilingualism, discusses the aims of pedagogical investigation, at the basis of which there lies a psychological mechanism of development of multilingual personality in the multicultural society. A second language is a means, changing psychological individuality, the viewpoint of the world, life values, determining the character and the content of his/her acts and deeds. And only the personality, capable of understanding the representatives of other cultures, can make a contribution into effective realization of humankind objectives in the language education:  establishing mutual understanding and peace between different cultures.

The aim of the article is to reveal the opportunities for a hermeneutical analysis of the Olonkho (Sakha people epic songs) texts. It is supposed that the original information contained in Olonkho is stored in archetypes obtained by each representative of ethnos. Storytelling can reborn when three points are reached: 1) synchronical position of a person in the center of co-existence,
2) direct vertical connection of a person with the Universal order, 3) speaking native language. There are two groups of methods suggested: 1) re-creation, restoration of oral authentic texts of the Olonkho: а) spontaneous emergence of the storytelling talent caused by entering the condition of meditation, autism;
b) mouth-to-mouth transition of Olonkho between two storytellers;
c) representation of Olonkho texts heard much in the story-teller's childhood;
2) re-creation, restoration of written Olonkho texts: a) re-reading of the texts using hermeneutics methods; b) creation of a new text; c) creation of a new synthetical writing genre of Olonkho based on the revived epic way of thinking.

The article explains the importance of studying the language education space, while taking into account contemporary migration processes. The integration of migrants is a complex social process which affects many aspects of social and economic life including the processes of language education. Migration processes, caused by the development of information society and globalization, alter the architecture of language education space.

The article considers some aspects of humanization of higher military education. There are discussed the problems of humanization of higher military education, providing psychological safety of the educational environment in the military higher education institution. The author discloses the specific features of military training and complexity of the processes of humanization of education. The present study has identified some factors of socio-psychological adaptation of the cadets to studying.

In the article there are considered contradictory relations between the problems of humanistic education aimed at formation of the skills of complete personal self-determination, and how this self-determination is presented in the modern philosophical concepts which are being studied. The author asserts that for last decades the theme of humanistic self-determination of the person has appeared to be monopolized by the philosophical directions of the irrationalistic kind. In the article there are considered those features of irrationalistic self-consciousness (hermeticism, de-theorization, syncretism and so on) that obstruct fulfilling the tasks of self-determination of the person in the actual complexity of social processes. There is proposed a didactic scheme which could present alternative approaches to the specified problems.

In the article dialogue is being discussed as a way of realization of modern education. This position is chosen for reason, because in the state educational standards of the second generation there are defined the components of scientific knowledge and competences, and among them communication is a key one. Thus, the authors note that at the basis of modern education (training and upbringing) there should be put the dialogue relations. This is because dialogue in training and upbringing focuses on essentially new quality of education, creates the conditions for the personality formation of the person, who should become a thinking, independent individual, capable of word, dialogue, choice, action, self-determination, reflection, etc.