Home – Home – Jornals – Professional Education in the Modern World 2012 number 3

In connection with absence of precise understanding of essence and tendencies of reforming of the Russian vocational training the need for theoretical development of the problems, concerning social bases of development of domestic vocational training is staticized. Now there is no theoretical substantiation of necessity of conformity ofvocational training to a level of development of a society. The transitive condition of a society generates new vital senses and values, including in vocational training.

In the article, a topical problem of humanitarian education and philosophy of education, connected with the in-depth research of the transition periods in the society evolution and modern social reality, is considered. It is substantiated that in the social evolution there take place: 1) the inter-stage transitivity or transition periods (with the qualitative transformation of evolutionary stages) and 2) the inside-the-stage transitivity, inside of a single evolutionary stage, where multiple social changes occur within the limits of one quality. Transition periods in the sociocultural evolution of knowledge, including in the sphere of education, are described; the topicality of the philosophical approach to the problem is substantiated.

The aim of the article is to characterize the experience of integrationof the scientific research inthe field of “oralhistory” andthe educational processin the technical university. The article describes thepossibility of using”oralhistory”in the classroom sessions, as well as in the joint research of students and teachers.The authors consider students’ workwithoral sourcesas a method ofimplementing the competence-based approachtostudying.

In the article, the history of business games is considered; the development of business games abroad, the successes and failures of games in Russia is treated. The games for the top administrative personnel, application of games in universities, games in the military science are analyzed. A special attention is given to the business games in the system of training methods. The definition of a business game is given. The difficulties of the business game development are analyzed. The model of game is proposed,and the scenario of its carrying out is offered; preparing, carrying out and summarizing the results of the game are described. The space for carrying out of the game is described. The role of the teacher in the game is analyzed;a special attention is paidto the formation of knowledge, skills, and also personal, administrative and organizational qualities of the person. The synergetic criteria of the success of the business game are outlined. There is described the experience of application of the business game to the formation of a team in the Higher School of Business, Management and Psychology of the Siberian State Technical University.

In the article, the role of knowledge in the education system, which is connected with the mental abilities of the person and economic-social achievements of the society, is considered. The importance of training the managers to manage the innovative processes is shown.

The article draws attention to the problem of vocational training of the students in terms of the competence approach while studying Ecological training ata Construction University. Due to acuteness and the worldwide character of ecological problems,the modern engineer is supposed to possess new qualitative characteristic features and, alongside engineering activities,take part in the social-engineering ones. Ecological training of the students of a Construction University shouldnot be the aim in itself during the educational process. While solving this problem, it is necessary to create the demandfor ecological knowledge and the abilities for satisfying one’s own professional interests and professional self-realization. The competence approach in vocational training is aimed in this direction.

Education is one of the leading factors of social progress. Given that today’s youth is the period of greatest activity, and increasing its share in the population of working age, the study of the role and importance of education in the system of values of young people can contribute to the productivity of education and serve as material for the construction of programs for a harmonious development of the individual. The article is based on research conducted by the author in 2009 and 2010. at p. Dagestan. It examines and reveals the attitude of modern Dagestan youth the value of education and the place of education in the value orientations of young people. We also consider some aspects of the problems of employment and the adaptation of young people to the labor market.

The goal of the article is to studysuch significant values as freedom and education. Investigating their nature, individual and social, and analyzing various aspects of their interaction, the author tries to establish the reason of their opposition.

The purpose of the article is to identify the axiological problems caused by the processes connected with commercialization of higher education. The author describesthe risks of the social institute of higher education, caused by introduction of the quality management system and the use for the characteristic of higher educational institution of exclusively economic categories, and also the dissemination of such characteristics in the mass consciousness. The social mission of education and its independent value, and the complexity of the developed modern situation are considered.

As the purpose of modern system of upbringing which is to meet the requirements of the society and the state, there should be put the principles of humanism, that is, the formation of all-round and harmoniously developed person in the framework of «human dimension», i.e. realization of the civic position, readiness for life, work, social creativity, participation in democratic self-government and responsibility for the destiny of the country and the human civilization as a whole. The crisis in the system of values appears today even more dangerous than the economic one. The loss of the traditional, universal values leads to the emergence of anti-values (individualism, boundless freedom, cult of force) which are actively propagandized by mass media. Elimination of these phenomena should be one of the purposes of modern upbringing.

In the article, some problems of contemporary education are examined. In the contemporary world, the word “information” occupies a key place in the development of the human being. The educational process should not only correspond to the modernity but also be ahead of it. In the article,a number of problems are revealed in this respect, and some methods of their solution are offered.

The formation of the educational space, regional as well as the world-wide one, is currently going through substantial changes. The factors, which most influence these changes, are the informatization and globalization. In the article, the author’s view on the changes of educational space under the influence of informatization is presented. The author bases his arguments on two theses: 1) theonthological base of the changes of the educational space is its computerization; 2) the appearance (due to computerization) of the electronic educational space is a new type of educational reality, different from the traditional one.

In the article, the authors consistently consider the development of continuous art education. This allows them analyzing at the scientific and methodical level the existing contradictions in the education system, to substantiate the concept of continuous art education and its realization in practice. All this requires long and consistent work including the following stages: development of a model of development of continuous art education, program and target provisions of its development, and also technological approaches on realization of the main directions of the development of the regional-educational complex.

The article deals with features of the process of studying the continuity of secondary and higher vocational education in the modernization of Russian education.

In the article,an analysis is performed of the main viewpoints on the problem of the education content;the definitions are given of the content of a training discipline and the content of a professional educational program;the conditions are determined for solving vital problems in the sphere of the specialist training.

In the article,the foreign experience of forming the career readiness of the graduates is analyzed. The authors describe the models of the career support in the foreign system of professional education. In the article, the history of development of the career support and the main stages of its development are considered, three models of the career support are described in detail: the employment model, the model of career planning, and the network model. Also, the authors carry out an analysis of the career centers of the universities in the USA, Europe and Australia; and there are considered several technologies applied in the foreign system of forming the career readiness.

In the article, the problems of vocational training of the officers of the Internal Troops under the program of post-graduate training are considered. There is proposed a structurally functional model of the pedagogical system of «Training the officers of high qualification» for its introduction into the educational process of the National Defense University of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The premises of this articleareuniversal,common and particularpatterns of philosophyexpressedin the ontologyandgnoseology of the educational process of students.The methodologyof education didactics is considered as a creative work of the due, necessary, and essential in educationbutnotthe process of its achievement.The quality of education is achieved with the innovativetechnology providing high quality of teaching.

The article is devoted to philosophical understanding of dance in the professional education. The functions of dance are studied as pedagogical technologies of innovative education. The prospect of introduction of dance as a kind of creative activity of the person is conformable to the ideas of various experts.The authors give an account of the results of scientific investigation of the poly-functional theory of dance. The genesis and social functions of dance are revealed in a broad historical range. The innovative aspects of dance define the perspectives of creating pedagogical technologies of dance in the system of general and corrective education in the twentyfirst century.

The article presents a brief analysis of the national educational institutions from the position of philosophy of education. The article deals with some traditional and modern approaches to educationin Great Britain, Germany, France, USA, and Japan. The author demonstrates the relationship between the society, the model of the world and the model of higher education. The topicality of the socio-philosophical and philosophical-methodological comprehension of reforming higher education and its institutions is substantiated.

Informative interests, requirements, valuable orientations, communicative functions directed on the formation of the personality of a travel manager are considered in the article.

The modern requirements to education make topical the tasks of modernizing the continuous education system of the person in the process of ontogenesis and acutely put the question of preserving and supporting health of all the participants of the educational process. One of the major factors promoting the active selfdeveloping of the person is the presence of a healthy ‘bodily’ state of the person and the inseparable interconnection between body and spirit. The main factor of being well educated is the knowledge of one’s own physicality, the ability to influence it and to manage the somatic psychological technologies of physical condition regulation, as well as the knowledge of reconstructive and prophylactic technologies in the field of health preservation.

The article deals with the results of introduction of the reflexive educational methods into the curriculum of the additional vocational training at the Novosibirsk State Agrarian University. The methods are aimed at the teachers and educators who donot have basic special pedagogical education.