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In the article the author considers the theory of controlled chaos which is being actively used in the modern globalized world. A special attention is paid to the foundations and consequences of application of controlled chaos, including for Russia. The influence of the applied technologies of controlled chaos on the state of national security is shown. In fact, the concept of controlled chaos is a new form of colonial policy. The importance of education, as one of the priority directions of the safety strategy of Russia, for minimization of the consequences of controlled chaos is substantiated. The potential of education has to be fully used for consolidation of the society, preservation of uniform sociocultural space of the country, overcoming the ethno-national tensions and for the sustainable development of the state as a whole.

The present work is devoted to studying the methodological specificities of the ontological and gnoseological problems of the higher education quality. An analysis is performed of the dialectical and phenomenological paradigms of the philosophy of education. The dialectical paradigm neither ignores, nor absolutizes the objective sides of functioning of the educational systems; however, it takes into account their being conditioned, to a substantial degree, by the objective (spiritual and material) sides of the social life. Moreover, this connection is a complex one; it has dialectical character and is manifested itself only at the final stage, if we consider the phenomena over wide enough intervals of historical time. The phenomenological (or the postmodernist) paradigm takes subjective reflections of objective reality as the objective social reality. Therefore, this paradigm has only formal connection even to the classical science which takes into account the objective (i.e. independent from the feelings and opinions of the researcher) existence of the objects under study. However, it is this paradigm that serves as the methodological basis of the absolute majority of modern research of the educational systems.

The article reveals the essence of norm-setting, which acquires a particular urgency in the context of globalization of education. The author argues that the problem of norm-setting is caused by the discrepancy between the tasks of the society and the state, which is particularly reflected in the education system. It is substantiated in the article that the norm-setting process is closely connected with the type of society, and this should be taking into account in the educational process. In the dialectical project, the norm-setting project is determined by that the idea of state and ideology are inseparable from each other. The objective dialectics of the collectivist society presupposes the universal connection of phenomena. As a normative one, there is considered the standard of sociality, because the socialization of the teenager is one of the main goals of any school.

The paper analyzes the government statistical materials in the field of education for the years 1990-2011, identifies some of the major problems of its dramatic condition and the dangers that threaten the Russian society in this regard in this regard. Russia is still lagging behind the developed countries in terms of intellectual potential; Russian education is being built according to the patterns of the European and American ones, where very narrows experts are trained. Overall, in our system of education there is engaged insufficient percentage of the young people; our country is not among the leaders in the development of the educational sphere.

This article analyzes the Russian system of social partnership, its structure and functions. Social partnership is seen as a way of resolving social conflicts on the basis of the case studies and the structural-functional approach functional approach. Social partnership shows interdependence of the social groups, where the main task of social partnership is to take into account the differences between these groups in realizing the coordinated decisions. A society can develop harmoniously only in the conditions of coordination between the interests of the state and various social groups.

It is shown that the paradox of opposite conclusions from the same empirical information about the value orientations of students is expressed in the eclectic combination of the principles of alternative paradigms. The main direction of the transformation of the value orientations of students is characterized by antisocial orientation. The value attitude to work is reduced to two types: the terminal (life-meaning) and the instrumental (as a means to achieve other goals) ones. The massive rejection of the instrumental attitude toward work in favor of the terminal one is a controversial process, which constitutes an entire historical epoch. As a result of the transformational socio-economic processes in Russia, there are taking place large-scale changes in the minds of students.

The article considers the problem of systematization of humanities and states the need for introducing such philosophical disciplines as ethics, religion, and logic for the high school students within the framework of additional education. The author describes the experience of implementation of these disciplines in the Chita Suvorov Military School of the Russian Interior Ministry. Russian Interior Ministry. The additional philosophical disciplines help to resolve an entire complex of the world-view problems, foster the formation of the spiritual-moral reference points, critical comprehension of the social processes and affirmation of the humanistic values. The educational reform in Russia is directed on the formation of such spiritual-moral environment, where the students learn to defend their world-view position, taking into account the priority of the traditional cultural values.

The author analyzes the role of social volunteer practice in the process of training the Bachelors of Social Work. The author considers this type of practical training as an education technology technology. The social volunteer practice plays the role of a basis for the creation of new possibilities and realization of the personal potential of the youth, as well as a way of mastering the basics of the future profession through the theoretical and practical activities. The development of the volunteer movement in the higher education system is understood as one of the priority strategies, because to train the quality social workers there are needed fundamentally new, active forms of education.

This article discusses the most significant features of the Western and Russian civilizations that determine the content of the cross-cultural West – Russia dialogue. Based on the identified features, the author proposes an approach to the formation of Russia’s position in this cross-cultural dialogue dialogue. There is necessary to ensure preservation of the national and cultural originality of Russia as the main condition for the equal dialogue. Also, the throwback to the positions of isolationism is inadmissible, because integration – first of all, the economic one “ is an objective necessity for Russia. The latter is impossible without the cultural integration, achieved by means of the equal dialogue of cultures.

In the work the systematizing role of the invariance and relativity concepts in the system of knowledge is considered on the example of education in the field of physics field of physics. Taking into account the organizational structure of the classical physics knowledge, the author has constructed a model of a five-level system of classical physics education. At that, the education on each level must satisfy the requirements of wholeness and continuity. The analysis of the system of the physics knowledge on the basis of the concept of relativity and invariance provide a methodological foundation for structuring the educational physics knowledge.

The article explores the possibilities and prospects of implementation of a system of continuous professional economic and business education in the institution of higher professional education higher professional education. There are distinguished two levels of continuous education: the higher professional economic education and the additional professional economic business-education. At that, the informational support of the activity of the continuous education system is considered as a priority direction of the development. The system of continuous professional education fosters self-realization of the person in the social-professional sphere, helps the professional and career growth.

The author analyzes the concept of the human body phenomenon and its transformation in the history of philosophy, and explores a specific virtual corporality in its relation to the formation of the modern person. The article points out to the necessity of changes in the educational process, taking into account the emergence of new types of corporality (medial, virtual body), thinking (‘clip mentality’), and new communities based on the virtual space. Here the author investigates the characteristics of corporality, which are being formed in the modern context of advanced technologies. The author points out to a fundamental difference in the perception of the human body in the classical philosophy and in the perception of corporality of the user in the contemporary discourse; this requires new approaches in solving problems, associated with the development and formation of the individual.

The article considers the problem of emerging artificial technogenic world and its influence on the human being and the nature of the biosphere. The author pays a special attention to studying the disastrous consequences of such impact of such impact. The author of the article not only studies the social-economic changes which take place in the post-industrial technogenic society, but also investigates the character of the technogenic social-natural development of the earth world. It is shown that the transformation of biogenic processes in the technosphere’s environment results in the appearance of techno-biogenic processes which are the reason of initiation of pathologic processes in nature and the organism of the human being.

In the article, there is considered in the modern context the problem of socialization of adolescents-orphans. A significant role in this process is played by the formation of a consistent positive temporal transspective, in which the past time is the basis of the future time of the person. It is substantiated that the adolescents-orphans, pupils of the professional college, have a distorted temporal transspective: low productivity, reduced extent, negative emotional component, weakly developed reflection and readiness to adopt for oneself the responsibility for one’s own life, which requires a special work, directed toward its correction.

The paper is devoted to the system research of the multifunctional theory of dance. The variability is shown of pedagogical technologies of dance in the system of XXI century education. The prospect of introduction of dance as a kind of creative activity of the person is conformable to the ideas of different experts. For the first time, the functions of dance are studied as pedagogical technologies of innovative education innovative education. The theoretical and methodological research of the phenomenon of dance, the accumulated centuries-old practical experience of the folk culture are oriented to the perspective development of Russia.

The author analyzes the educational system proposed by I. Yefremov in the socio-philosophical novel “Andromeda Nebula” as an alternative version of the education reform in the context of globalization globalization. Under the influence of humanistic pedagogical ideas, I. Efremov creates in the “Andromeda Nebula” novel an example of the school of the future where education is inseparable from upbringing. The project by I. Efremov is designed for such stage of social development when the globalization process is coming to its completion and a universal language and a universal education system are being formed. A new united humanity becomes a subject of educational process, where the foundation of education is morality.

The article points out the leading role of education in the implementation of the model of sustainable development. Considering the ecological imperative as its methodological basis, the author reveals the essence of environmental ethics – a new field of social and human knowledge, which studies the behavior and activities of the human being in nature and their most important regulators. One form of implementation of its ideas into the practice of civilization is the environmental law; and the environmental and legal competence is the most important indicator of the national culture. In the transition to sustainable development, its formation is becoming one of the strategic objectives of education.

The paper deals with some philosophical and methodological aspects of Russian student youth’ social consciousness. The analysis of theoretical studies and empirical data shows that the destructive social processes tend to increase contradictions in the social consciousness of the Russians. The search for effective means of the higher education’s involvement in building up social consciousness and behavior leads the author to the conclusion that many of the existing problems can be solved from the standpoint of the management sociology.

The main goals of the article are 1) to acquaint the reader with the history of Laplace determinism, the central idea of this scientific and philosophic program and those fundamental problems, which arose after legalization of this program in science, 2) to suggest some ways of solution of those problems. The main theme of article is that determinism is not yet gotten over in the minds of scientists and ordinary people, and this fact presents the main problem of modernity. We suggest a pedagogical solution of this problem. It is a correction of educational plans (from secondary schools to higher education institutions), and it is the propaganda of indeterminism ideas among the young people, because the blind belief in determinism is very dangerous in our technological century.

The concept of “growth-development” (development, treated in a special sense of “growth”) is central in Dewey’s philosophy of education, being incorporated in his ontology, epistemology, ethics, and social theory. This fact was interpreted in different ways with different implications for the theory and practice of education. In Russia, fascinated by the project method associated with Dewey’s ideas, this concept has not yet received sufficient attention. However, the concept of “growth-development”, having critical importance for understanding of these ideas in their depth and foundations, potentially has in itself not only possible insights but also some problems. These issues are discussed in the article and receive original author’s interpretation.

The author analyzes the structural organization of consciousness, which represents a complete system, consisting of different elements, regularly related to one another. In the article, there are studied the real and symbol layers of consciousness, genetically preceded by the reflective one. It is reasoned that a source of real characteristics of consciousness is the subject and social action. As a whole, it is proved that the internal reflexive resources of consciousness are realized by means of emotions, memory, thinking, attention, will, imagination and its other structural components components. The conscious human being realizes the objective significance of his/her goals and motives; he/she is also capable of self-control on the basis of moral norms developed by the society.

The article is devoted to working out a theoretical basis of mathematical modeling of the competence approach in professional education on the basis of the ideas of constructivist pedagogy in terms of modern educational paradigm. The content of the work is determined by investigating three conceptual components, which are the system principles of the competence approach, the conception of mathematic model, and the mathematic model of the competence approach. The mathematic model is developed on the principles of fuzzy logic.

The article describes new trends, characterizing the military progress of the modern world. In particular, peculiarities of military progress after the «cold war», after the abolition of the bipolar world system are analyzed. NATO continues approaching the Russian border, justifying it by the needs of the struggle against the international terrorism. However, the real aims are the same, although they have acquired more rational appearance appearance. It is important to show in the educational process the ambivalent character of military progress as a part of social progress; at that, the problem of peace, prevention of war is considered as an issue of prime importance.

The complexity of the tasks of studying the process of professional development of the pedagogical collective determines the necessity of orientation to the methodological principles corresponding to the problem. The clarity of the methodological principles and methodological apparatus allows obtaining better substantiated, systematic and concrete pedagogical and methodical recommendations, which will create a solid base for the study of such complex and multifaceted problem. In the article, there are characterized the regularities of professional progress of the pedagogical collective of modern school revealed as a result of long-term research which are concretized by the theoretical positions and principles of realization in actual teaching. Thus, the methodological substantiation is provided for the process of professional progress of pedagogical collective in modern conditions.

The article is devoted to the economic training of students in the system of secondary professional education. The author formulated a definition of «economic training» as a continuous process of formation and development of social-economic competences, skills and socially oriented professional values which allow the effective realization of pedagogical activity in the new economic conditions. There are considered the requirements for the young specialist in the conditions of market competition (including educational services), the content of Federal state educational standards of the secondary vocational education as it concerns the economic training, and the special features of the competence approach to teaching the students.

The author substantiates the concept of professional-psychological characteristics of the teacher which are determined by the formation of modern polycultural educational space of Russia. The data of the carried out empirical research show the existence of distinctions in the manifestation degrees of the professional-psychological characteristics of the teachers working in the polycultural and single-cultural environments environments. The development of the cultural and ethnical manifoldness of the Russian society has influenced the formation of a polycultural educational space which is the most important factor of the professional and personal development of the pedagogues. At that, the pedagogues working in the polycultural educational space have higher levels of persistence, adaptability, collectivism, gender tolerance, inter-confessional tolerance and adherence to traditional culture.

The author analyzes the relevance and content of a model of formation of technological competence of the Bachelors of pedagogical education of the technological profile. The article reveals the interrelations of all the components of the model, specific features of the educational process with the introduction of the author’s integrative course «Foundations of the theory of technological learning». Thus, there is justified the use of the model of formation of technological competence of the Bachelors of pedagogical education of the technological profile, which can increase the level of technological competence of the students and optimizes the work of teachers.

The author analyzes the place and content of advertising education in the context of modern information society development. The institutional specificity of advertising education in Russia is investigated in the article. Also, there are shown the connection of the development of digital and advertising technologies with the changes in educational standards, professional competences, and social virtualization. The author justifies the need of studying and using the advertising education as one of specific forms of the humanitarian influence on the processes, taking place in the society.

The social-communicative functions of the visual text of advertisement are analyzed in the article from the point of view of the marketing and culturological approaches. The theory of communicative efficiency of advertisement, on one hand, and the interpretation of the advertisement message as creation and translation of socio-cultural meanings, on the other, give an opportunity of integrative consideration of the advertisement text phenomena. Innovative synthesis of these approaches allows distinguishing such its functions as «creation of communicative effects», «reference», «receptive», «creation of meanings», «adaptation», «creative», «relaxation» and opens the perspectives of the further scientific investigations.

In the article there are considered some general results of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy, as well as the work of the «Philosophy of education» section. There is also presented the author’s understanding of the modern native philosophy of education and the main aim of education and upbringing and upbringing. During the recent two decades the philosophy of education has made a substantial progress, which was fostered by the new historical epoch with acute social contradictions. A great aim of the humanity is the formation of the new, all-round and free person. To achieve that, it is necessary to create a qualitatively new society having a system of universal education and upbringing.