Home – Home – Jornals – "Philosophy of Education" 2013 number 4

In the article, there is analyzed one of the “innovations” within the framework of the educational reform: the actual elimination of teaching the educational discipline of “politology” in the Russian higher educational institutions, in spite of the extremely low political culture of the population. There is argued the discrepancy between the real governing in the country and the democratic constitutional principles, which may have extremely negative consequences in our information age.

The article is devoted to the evaluation of the role of science and higher education in the dynamics of development of the society on the global scale and in relation to Russia. There is proposed a law, according to which the rate of technological progress in the society is proportional to the level of payment of the higher education faculty. There is evaluated quantitatively and qualitatively the change of the role of Russia in the world science and education for the last 60 years. The greatest successes (entering the outer space, creating the nuclear missile shield, etc.) were achieved by the country in the years 1950 – 1960 due to the increase of the quality and role of public higher education and fundamental science. The decline in the prestige and payment in these areas of skilled labor, which occurred in Russia in the end of the last century, has reduced the role of Russia in the world in all areas.

In the article, civil society is considered as one of sophisticated social complexes, its definition is made, education as a factor of its formation is singled out. Also, the author considers the “innovation” concept in the pedagogical process.

There is considered in the article an educational correlate of the human being’s ability to transcend. In this philosophical-anthropological research, the author makes an attempt of theoretical comprehension of transcending as a mechanism of educational self-construction of the human being. A metaphysical idea of the possibility of final «completion of the human being» is criticized in the work. There is shown continuous educational processuality, which determines a self-creating way of existence of the human being. The author states a thesis about the necessity of using the onto-anthropological concept of «educational transcending» for theoretically effective study and description of education as a way of existence of the human being.

The article considers the problems of organization of the research education environment as a backbone factor of innovational activity. The structure of the education environment for the modern educational institution is described, this structure having been developed both in the “classical” and the innovation-generative versions.

The article deals with the world-systems interpretation of the «open» and «closed» societies. There are made critical remarks concerning the content of these concepts in K. Popper’s works. The main aim of the article is the explanation of the historical reasons of occurrence of the “open” and “closed” societies in the world-system history.

The article focuses on the philosophy of cinema and education of one of the most prominent post-structuralists of the Twentieth century Gilles Deleuze. It is based on his work “What is philosophy?” and the two-volume “Cinema”. There is noted the philosopher’s unusual approach to the problems of cinema and education, their common points are emphasized. Deleuze has developed the “pedagogy of perception”: the training of the film perception and of the experience virtualization. The article explains its essence and also reflects on the philosopher’s ideas about the relationship between philosophy and cinema, cinema and education.

A brief analysis of the antique educational paradigm is carried out in the article. The author indicates the absence of the modern domestic ideology of education, capable to answering both the general questions of education and the questions of its reforming. The author pays attention to the possibility of using some principles and methods of antique education for creation a modern domestic educational paradigm.

The article considers the problems of Russian technical education caused by the reducing in the educational standards the in-room studies of the basic subjects, which are the foundation for the formation of the highly qualified specialist (advanced mathematics, theoretical mechanics, theory of the strength of materials, theory of machines and mechanisms). The high speed of scientific and technical progress sets higher requirements for the training of the specialist with higher education. However, a decrease of the knowledge level is detected through the monitoring of the training quality. A trend analysis is carried out to highlight the consequences of the classroom load reduction in the educational standards concerning the machine-building subjects.

In the article, the problem of humanization of technical education is described, its social-philosophical aspect is considered, the questions about the problems of globalization of society and education are brought up. There is defined a set of problems which can be solved by creation of a new program of teaching of humanitarian disciplines in the technical college.

At the present time, the problems of managing the reputation and image of educational organizations are gaining a broad resonance in the educational field. In the unfolding competition, the institutions of higher education resort to the extensive use of Internet to enhance their communicational capabilities. Maintaining a positive image of the higher education institute on the Internet has an influence not only on the strengthening of its competitiveness and outlook for the future, but, in general, makes it possible to indicate the level of educational development in a region or a country. The author analyzes the characteristics of Internet reputation of the higher education institution and the factors which form the educational reputation. In the article, there is also described an online reputation management system and a set of possible actions to implement the process of management of the Internet reputation.

The author analyzes the potential of online-learning activities in the educational process in higher education. The development of the virtual communication environment provides many new opportunities for the training process organization. The author offers an option of integrating the traditional forms of practical training organization in the new communication environment. The article considers the types of online-activities that are conducted by commercial organizations, their strengths and weaknesses, as well as indicates the most prospective forms of the online-learning activities.

The current conditions of education development, the society’s demands and the challenges of modern time – all lead to a more urgent need for working out the philosophical-methodological foundations of didactics and applying the latter as a fundamental science to shape a higher culture of thinking. In which case (under which conditions) can the learner develop reflexive thinking, an active ability to resolve forthcoming problems and contradictions in professional life? This article addresses a number of problem questions, viewed through the prism of philosophical thought and its development, as well as through the methodology of science, in order to find out the causes of the present cognition issues and draft some ways to tackle them. The author considers the dialectical approach as a progressive efficient means.

A critical view on modern education reflecting the historical period of transition from the traditional system of education to a new high-quality one cannot be constructed outside the philosophical-methodological basis of the core aspect of education, which is didactics. The social philosophy of education and the methodology of the pedagogical science didactics are united by gnoseology (epistemology), the theory of the objective reality cognition that has a direct relation to the students and pupils’ cognitive process. In our experience, the quality of education is achieved by innovative knowledge tests and educational (training) testing, especially at the pre-examination stage. The traditional testology, which is a science of monitoring and evaluating the quality of education, is used here in a new system of its synthesis with didactics, which is the theory of teaching. A functional integration of the two education-related sciences (didactics and testology) produces the surprisingly progressive results.

The authors raise a question of the methodological and theoretical foundation of the modern dissertation research as one of the criteria of its evaluation. The authors describe the current state of the problem of conceptual-categorical framework of research. Some examples of reasonable choice of the methodological foundation in various pedagogical dissertation researches are given in the article.

The role of evaluation system in the development of educational process is described in this article. The nature and specificity of the evaluation process in the school are revealed. The article deals with the reasons which reduce the students’ results in school. The modern methods of the students’ knowledge evaluation are examined and analyzed. Also, some ways to improve the evaluation organization in school are suggested.

To reach their goals, the institutions of higher education employ the quality monitoring. The information, collected as a result of such monitoring, allows making informed management decisions and identifying the problem areas, which are then targeted with specific measures and improvement programs. This article describes the quality management system tools, which has been successfully implemented for quality monitoring of the educational processes in the Siberian University of Consumer Cooperatives.

The article describes the contemporary requirements to the teacher’s professional competence and the ways of additional training of the teachers in the context of development of the domestic system of education. A special attention is given to the specificities of the program development and its implementation under conditions of the module technology, which provides the practice-transforming activity, awareness of teacher’s own abilities and the development of the individual educational program. As an example, there is presented a program of educational invariant normative-legal module as a part of the individual educational program.

In the article, the influence of educational group, as a socialization micro-factor, on the creative development of students is shown; an intrinsic characteristic is given of educational group as a small social group, as a group of contemporaries, as a precondition of social and personal development of students. From the point of view of philosophical approach, the concept of “creativity” is revealed; the creative development of students is considered in the aspect of the development of creativity as a general universal ability, being possessed to some extent by every person.

The article features the topical problems of the influence of PR on the formation of the cultural-ideological values of the youth. The author analyzes the functions of the media and their influence on awareness, self-consciousness and intelligence of young people.

In the article, the modern models of education are analyzed: the traditional and the humanistic ones. There is described a new technology of education, coaching, which has appeared relatively recently: its principles, methods, techniques and areas of application are presented. The possibility is discussed of using coaching in modern conditions as a tool promoting realization of the principles of the humanistic educational model.

The author analyzes various approaches to the formation of metacognitive structures of cognitive activity and their roles in the development of general culture of thinking in the process of education. The article studies the impact of these approaches on the formation of modern educational strategies and models. There is shown the specificity of formation and development of cognitive and metacognitive structures of consciousness and thinking in the context of the traditional subject of study in the process of developing education, focused on the metasubject contents. There is substantiated the need of taking into account the distinctions of the metacognitive structures organizing logical thinking in its classical understanding, and the narrative language categories and structures. A conclusion is made about the necessity and prospects of development of new models of education aimed at the development of metacognitive structures of consciousness and abilities to reflect the categories, which organize thinking and language means.

The methodological bases of studying socialization of the person with limited opportunities of health in inclusive education are presented in article. At the philosophical level of methodology, socialization of the person with limited opportunities of health is considered as a form of manifestation of the general philosophical category of “development” on the basis of 3 dynamic pairs of concepts. At the general scientific level of methodology, socialization of the person with limited opportunities of health is analyzed through the prism of the synergetic, the activity and the subject subject approaches.

The methodology of developing creative abilities of the person is based on the philosophical theses about the essence of the human being and his/her activity, as well as on the creative thinking concept which is based on dialectical logic. The dialectical laws manifest themselves by revealing the unity of the processes of development and creation; hence, there arises the primary theoretical foundation for understanding of creation. The phenomenology of creativity is considered through the chess players’ creative activity.

The work presents the rationale of development of multifunctional components and devices on children’s clothing as the psycho-pedagogical means of prevention the psycho-emotional disorders and psychosomatic disorders in preschoolers, related to the adverse emotional content of the parent’s relations with the child.