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In the article, the influence of the current global transformations on the development of the modern Russian university is shown. The article discusses some key issues concerning communicative trends in modern culture and changes in the activities of universities which contribute to implementation of new educational technologies and communicative strategies in higher education. The key competences of the modern Russian university teacher are defined. A competence model of the teacher's work in the international scientific and educational space is examined.

The article is devoted to the problem of the main social and cultural orienting points in the modern world. The author analyzes social and cultural values as the basis of person's life, the way they must be reflected in the «person of culture» model in modern education. The author gives a characteristic of the main traits of the modern «person of culture». The main idea of the article is that there is needed a content-analysis of the «person of culture» model as the moral basis of not only modern education but the world as a whole.

The processes of social partnership as innovative forms of collective business thinking and activity, requiring explanation, are considered in the present article. The significance and content of the theme are specified by the changes of cooperation formats between economic entities of various managerial and legal forms and, by changes of the paradigm of the system of vocational training of the youth and by development of legislative and legal sphere at the federal and regional levels. The basis of the work is a description of the processes of development of social partnership within modern municipal education.

There are considered in the article the modern problems of realization of the upbringing potential of traditional culture. These problems are faced by the teachers of vocational and pre-school education. There are presented some innovational conditions of applying the traditional forms and methods of upbringing of the early age children with the help of traditional culture. There are also shown the results of theoretical substantiation and practical activity connected with systemic introduction of a culture-centered (ethno-pedagogical) orientation into the practice of the institutions of vocational education.  Urgency and importance of the educational model, realizing this direction, are revealed through the philosophical approach to formation of adequate attitude towards the native culture, ethnic identification, tolerant inter-ethnic and interfamilial relations.