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The article analyses the specific character of innovative society as an object of social-philosophical cognition. The author pays attention to the innovative system, a distinctive criterion and the basis of innovative society. The study presents the process of development of innovative society, in the framework of which the author studies the processes of renewal and the limits of innovative society. Special attention is paid to education in innovative society;the authoremphasizes the advantages of open education. Finally, author makes a conclusion about the perspective of development of social philosophy, about its sophistication as a result of social-philosophical conceptualization of innovative society.

The work presents the concept and strategy of a new direction in the organization, management and development of the youth science and the personnel policy by means of motivation of the students of the junior and subsequent years to get involved in the scientific-research work from the position of system activity, competence-based and value-semantic approaches.The characteristics of the students are specified at the stage of their preparation for the future professional activity and continuing professional education.

The author addresses the modernization processes in education and society. In the education system, the processes of mastering and sophistication of the major changes in the society are especially distinctly visible. It is proved that, in the society modernization,education is a system-forming concept. It is claimed that erudition and good breeding of young generation are a resource of the society development. The author makes a conclusion that education is decisive for realization of the socio-cultural tendencies and the perspectives of social development.

The authors show that in the minds of Russian youth there dominates a different hierarchy of the personal qualities of the elite as compared to the traditional (imperative) version. Using a survey, there is identified the constellation of the elite qualities in the students and graduate students of the institutions of higher education, in the representatives of the «acting» elite. In the article,a possibility is substantiated of expanding the human potential, the formation of the subjective and personal qualities which satisfy the needs of time. The study results serve to select the appropriate ways of recruiting elite in Russia, establishing a new system of nominating the best people for the development of educational programs, psychological and pedagogical techniques to identify and initiate the personal and subjective activity, educational self-aggrandizement, in view of Russian social-psychological characteristics and behavioral peculiarities.

In the article, there are described the methodological aspects of social practices of the youth on the basis of a systemic approach in the context of innovative processes; there are considered the factors of innovative environment as foundations of self-determination and self-regulation of the youth.

In the article the basic principles of pedagogical constructivism are revealed, and the idea of efficiency of its application in the theory and practice of education is substantiated. Constructivism considers education as a natural adaptive process. Adaptation of a subject to the conditions of the world around is expressed in the solution of vital tasks. The constructivist approach in education forms a certain type of behavior and the related typology of result-oriented thinking in its practical application for the future. It is focused on formation of a good habit of positive perception of reality, on the openness to all kinds of activity in it, i.e. on the active life position.

The present work is devoted to the research of ontological and gnoseological problems of the quality of higher education from the positions of social philosophy. The main ontological problem of the higher education quality in modern Russia is a contradiction between the socially desirable and the real quality of professional training of the majority of higher education graduates. The main gnoseological problem is that the theoretical concepts of socially desirable and real quality of professional training of the higher education graduates have not yet had such philosophical-methodological understanding that would suffice for their empiric interpretation. The real national strategic goals of the higher education quality are saving and utmostdevelopment of the vital powers of the nation, providing sovereignty and integrity of the country, using its resources for the well-being of the majority of Russian population.

In the article, there are shown different types of educational systems: the integral civil ones and the polarized elite-mass ones, which essentially differ by their content and essence. The anthropological approach to education is applied, because education is inherently anthropocentric. However, the person appears differently in the different types of educational systems. There are being formed in education polar paradigms of anthropoholismand anthropopartialism. The competence-based approach represents the paradigm of anthropopartialism, it is based on the liberal-market economic determinism and leads to destruction of the integral system of domestic vocational training.

The paper analyzes the issues of the value systems both in Russian and American educational systems. Education is considered as a timely,constantly developing phenomenon in the globalized society. Considering education within the context of culture, the authordistinguishes its specific cultural functions. The author substantiates the importance of education which is implemented to a great extent within the competence approach aimed at practical application of the acquired knowledge and skills. There is shown an alternative to the value clash in education, which is realized in the process of formation of a tolerant society.

In the article,a statement is substantiated that the main value of education is the persons achieving moral, psychological, and social maturity. Education is upbringing of the soul, upbringing of freedom, it helps in those kinds of activity that are connected with interaction of the people, some of which helping others to change for the better, to improve. Hence, the content of educational subjects is only means to make clearer the personal meaning, interests and cares of the pupils.

The aim is to explore the relationship between the categories of social security and liberty of person and to present an experience of social-philosophical analysis of the problem. The problem in the determination of any of its aspects reveals itself as an eternal and boundless one. Of course, many of the philosophical categories have such a feature. But while other categories, attributable to the concepts of eternal values, are more or less determined by every person within his/her consciousness and spirituality, the problem of relationship between social security and freedom of the person in the society always seems unattainable. Manifesting itself in various spheres of life, these categories always remain values for the person, determining his/her life in the society.

The article is devoted to a brief analysis of the problem of national security in the scientific-educational space. There are considered the threats to the development of educational institutions in the modern globalizing world. The author shows the necessity of conformity of the types (models) of higher education to the historically developed type of sociality and the model of the world. The importance is substantiated of socio-philosophical and philosophical-methodological reflection on the reforms of higher education and its institutions.

The author considers the world outlook in the conditions of globalization. The dialogue of the world outlooks is considered as a condition of the safe development of the world civilization. The urgency of rapprochement of the world outlooks of the West and the East in modern conditions is substantiated. In the article, the role of Russia is considered, the twofold nature of whose culture allows it to become some kind of an intermediary between the East and the West in the formation of a uniform civilization al world outlook. The author makes a conclusion that the dialogue of world outlooks in the modern globalized world has become a necessary reality and is one of important conditions of self-preservation of the mankind.

The author substantiates an understanding of Russian patriotism as a basis of consolidation of the society, achievement of social stability and sustainable development of the Russian society. On the basis of the scientific analysis results, the author reveals the current understanding of the subject of patriotic upbringing, its structure as a basis for constructing the process of patriotic upbringing. The functionality, realized in patriotic upbringing in the process of social reproduction, serves as reference points for the selection of the content of patriotic upbringing, integrative factors of structuring the innovation process and defines the logic of patriotic upbringing in modern education.

In the article, there is considered the problem of transformation of the discourse of sexuality within the framework of postmodern philosophy. The author analyzes two strategies of upbringing. The first strategy is based on prohibition and the second, on enhancing the desire.

In the article, there are considered the consequences of socially pernicious shock reforms of the Russian economy in the mid-nineties, which caused critical decline of the living standards of all the segments of population, especially in such unprotected group as the youth. The examples of increasing deviation of young generation in this period are given: the growth of drug addiction, alcoholism and youth crime.

The article is devoted to the critical analysis of the philosophical and world outlook foundations of the creative works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. The purpose of the analysis is the development of possibilities of the paradigmatic analysis, allowing considering the philosophical ideas in their unity with the artistic, philosophical, and ideological context of the epoch. The author, turning to the Living Life work by the known Russian writer V. V. Veresaev, shows that the latter represents an integral realization of the non-classical anti-metaphysical ontology. At the same time, it brings attention to the question about the connection between the ontology and the world outlook dispositions of the considered writers. These and other features of work allow, according to the author, to consider it as a possible introduction into the history of philosophical thought of the end of XIX - the beginning of the XX century.

The aim of this paper is to describe the role of the philosophical and psychological-pedagogical aspects of didactic games in solving the construction problems. Considering these aspects of the origin of the game and the regularities of the game activitys impact on the child, the article discusses various forms and types of didactic games which facilitate learning and are aimed at the development of cognitive interest, the ability to analyze information, to work both independently and in groups. Taking into account these aspects is a means of moral upbringing of the student, which is one of the goals of the Federal Educational Standard of General Education. Building on the program of formation and development of the ICT-competencies of students, there is a need to develop the didactic games through information technologies.

Education as a result (the cultural world of the person) and as a process (construction of this cultural world) is studied in a philosophical paradigm of the world of potential and actual opportunities. According to the authors concept of meaning formation, the problems of perception of the world, comprehension of the world, the world outlook and mastering of the cultural world correspondto some four parameters N, B, G, A of the determination of meaning. The essence of the object of education is knowledge, and the cultural world of education is the following system: the cultural world of the person + culture of education + educational culture. The meaning of the education modernization is in actualization of the potential opportunities G of knowledge up to its truthfulness, including the science A, educational processes B, and upbringing N of the cultural person.

The author analyses the concepts and key parameters of the value of information by means of comparing such its characteristics as novelty, importance, utility, and truth. The value-related characteristics of scientific, aesthetic, ethic, ideological, socio-political, and economic types of information are considered in the article from the viewpoint of the subject and object approach. The interrelation between the value of information and the goals and needs of the individual is revealed.

The author considers the processes of transformation in modern information society and their influence on the purposes and tasks of education. The author analyses the changes in the contents of education caused by informatization, explains the necessity of formation of the information culture, fundamentalization and humanization of education. So, the most important aspects of changes in the contents of modern education are identified.

The article considers the interactive media technologies as a means of communication with a high specific information capacity which is the most relevant criteria in modern communication. A survey is conducted, dedicated to modern social changes leading to new ways of communication.
The article also considers the education process from the perspective of interactive media technology. A conceptual plan for creation of an interactive media study guide for BA students, specializing in public relations and advertisement, is presented.

The authors try to analyze the forms of modern information processes, pay attention to the realization of possibilities of foreign language teaching with the help of e-learning platforms. In addition, they focus their attention on the educational and informational environment, formed by these technologies, and discuss such notions as person-oriented approach, information rights and duties of the pupil and the corresponding responsibility of the teacher.

The article describes the formation of the information technology competence of future teachers in the conditions of correspondence and distance learning. The urgency of developing this technology is indicated. The purpose of the article is to understand the conditions, means, methods and forms of organization of educational process, through application of which by the students the transition to a higher level of formation of the information competence may be realized more effectively.

In the article, the concrete experience of one of the leading Russian higher education institutions (The Higher School of Economics) is analyzed. The author analyses the control of the educational process organizationusing the help of an Internet-service. This Internet-service The Button of Expressing is constantly supporting the feedback between the students and the chiefs of the divisions of thishigher education institution. The analysis of this concrete experience shows that this method promotes increasing efficiency of organization of the educational process, but it only works under two conditions: 1. domination of the democratic culture of mutual relations in the higher education institution, 2. active attention of the management to this method of control.

The author analyzes the essence and peculiarities of the professional management of the activities of the head of the educational institution. The article presents the specifics of the activities of the head of the educational institution, which differs from the activities of the head of the company. In addition, the features of the structure and characteristics of the professional management of the activities of the head are described; its generalized definition is formulated.

The article examines the political aspects of the characteristic of existing and newly established institutions in the field of education, presented in the report of V. V. Mironov. On the basis of the analysis results of the political aspects of institutionalization in the field of Russian education, the author concludes that the failing and protracted nature of the reforms, carried out in the field of education, is caused by the discrepancy between the state policy in this field and the interests of the majority of the countrys population.

The paper highlights the topicality of the problems of development of mathematization of pedagogical processes and studies in Russia and abroad. The features of using quantitative methods in the evaluation system are considered. There are demonstrated the possibilities of application of the correlation and regression approaches to the analysis of the set of evaluation objects that are homogeneous with respect to the evaluated characteristics or phenomena. Besides, there are determined the application directions for various models to describe the interrelation between the observed variables (attributes) (the regression models, the multilevel ones, the mixed multidimensional ones, the models of latent, path and multifactor analysis etc.).

The purpose of the article is to study the possibilities of convergence of the religious and scientific world views in the process of teaching and upbringing the growing-up generation. The author proposes to investigate this question from the positions of social philosophy, analyzing the process of the evolution of the system of socialization from the point of view of the dialectical law of negating the negation, separating the pre-industrial and industrial systems of socialization as dialectical oppositions which change one another. The new stage of development is a synthesis, convergence of the elements of two previous systems. In particular, it includes integration of religious and scientific knowledge in the process of instruction. As a scientific-methodological basis of this association, the author proposes to examine the ideas of Russian cosmism.

The purpose of the article is to determine the value and importance of introducing new religion studies courses in the system of State education. The importance of the instructions by The Ministry of Education is analyzed here from the point of view of spiritually-moral education of the youth. The content of new religious studies courses is examined in the light of realization of the freedom of worship of the person, which is being formed in the State general education school. The question is raised about the relationship between the State and the Russian Orthodox Church in the modern life of Russia; some unclear positions of both sides are revealed concerning teaching the foundations of the Orthodox culture in the State school.

In the article, there are considered the cognitive features of the period of religiousReformation, in the basis of which there lie the changing attitudes towards knowledge and cognition which formnew epistemic communities. The examples are given of the pedagogical programs of both religious and scientifically focused types. The mechanisms of formation of science and education of the Early Modern period are shown.