Home – Home – Jornals – Professional Education in the Modern World 2012 number 2

Globalization of education is a qualitatively new phenomenon, which essence is the concentration of economic, financial, political power in the hands of multinational corporations, subjugation of education to their interests. There gains momentum the tendency of suppression and submission of the educational systems that are developing outside of the influence zone of the leading corporations. There takes place the process of purposeful globalization pressure on the opponent education systems for the purpose of their deformation, which is supposed to ensure that the leading countries preserve their leadership.

The article reveals the specificities of correlation between life and professional self-determination of the representatives of various social groups. The author analyzes the images of the desired future and the future to be avoided in its correlation with the hierarchy and structure of the needs determined by the professional and life purposes. The integrity of the life and professional self-determination processes finds its confirmation in the empirical research of the author. This considerably corrects the theoretical understanding of modern psychology. The study of this problem enables us to look differently at the formation of orientation of the personality development in the domestic training and upbringing.

In the article, there are considered the choice options of the most acceptable communication channels for the system of professional support of the personnel specialists.

A social institute of the society plays a major role in the civilization development. In these conditions, education as a social institute is directed to spiritual integration of the community and is an answer to the challenges of time. To carry out modernization in the country, it is necessary to raise the level of education.

In the article, there is presented substantiation of the need to realize a system of continuous support of the personnel experts at the agricultural enterprises of Russia. There are shown the results of questioning of the personnel managers, who participated in the qualification improvement courses at the Altay Institute of Improvement of Professional Qualification of the Agriculture Leaders and Experts.

In the article there are considered the problems of formation of the Russian political science in the latest period, and some of its main tendencies and its “points of growth”.

In this article, the personality of the contemporary pedagogue is considered using the philosophical approach. There is substantiated a thesis that, given the conditions of reforming of the contemporary Russian education, the pedagogue’s personality will also undergo considerable deformations. In the authors’opinion, these deformations are connected with the actions of global tendencies, which change the nature of the teacher as an active subject of the educational process. These changes do not always have positive character, which is a result of not only the conflict between the teacher and the educational environment being reformed, but also are conditioned by new educational necessities of the society in general in the process of its transformation. A conclusion is made that the subjectivity of the teacher should acquire new characteristics, some of which are presented in the article.

The article deals with various forms of social deviations in modern society, allowing perceiving its moral state. The author offers a model of the personality’s inner structure in connection with the norms of orthodox psychology. The traditions of national psychology help to solve the practical problems connected with the spiritual and moral recovery of both the society and the person.

The aim of the article is the analysis of the phenomenon of tolerance from the point of view of the problem of the personality self-improvement. The essence and the content of tolerance as a philosophical phenomenon of education, the peculiarities of realization of tolerance in the present system of education, the content of the tolerance-oriented education are revealed in the article. The author substantiates the necessity of teachers’ understanding of tolerance as an important means of fostering students’ self-actualization, self-improvement and self-education. As a result of the analysis, the author offers the ways of realization of tolerance in the system of education. These ways help to reveal the person’s inner world, to activate the development of creative potential, to widen potentialities and their realization, to form the sense of self-sufficiency.

There are considered in the article the philosophical foundations of studying life activity in the context of social upbringing. The author thinks that the most important thing in understanding the nature and mechanisms of social education is to consider the scope of usage of the “life activity” term in the concept of social upbringing (A. V. Mudrik). Examination of the current practice of using this term yields three major variants: the individual life activity, the life activity of the social group, the collective life activity of the educational organization. This leads to a possibility of drawing the following scheme: the essence of social upbringing–reproduction of individual life and the life of social groups, and the mechanism of social upbringing– multi-factorial influence of the collective life activity of the educational organization.

The changes in the sphere of education and the formation of a new educational system are based on the humanistic principles: rapprochement, integration of the ethnic educational systems. The renewal of the content of the primary school teacher’s training in the aspect of multilevel education and according to the conception of cultural positions will play key role in the quality improvement of higher education and primary school education. It helps to realize both the cultural approach and regionalization of educational system.

The author investigates the general culture of the person. It comprises a spiritual practical and a spiritual-theoretical component. The growing gap between these two important parts of the general culture of the graduates of rural schools can be considered as a picture of the spiritual-practical development of the youth on various levels. The average level of the spiritual-practical development of the village you this lower than the opportunities provided by the general social culture. Formally this level corresponds to the requirements of the education system, but factually it does not correspond to the requirements of the reality. In connection with this, it is necessary to introduce into the sociology of spiritual life and culture such notions as «the potential of the spiritual-practical development» and «the level of the spiritual-practical development of the youth».

This article is an attempt to study the ethical-philosophical knowledge in the substantial-semantic field of the philosophy of education in Russia during the enlightenment epoch. The article contains a comprehensive scientific analysis of the sources of the domestic pedagogical theory, the Russian tradition of philosophy of education. There is also presented a characteristic of this tradition in its comparison with the West-European type of scientific rationality and pedagogical tradition.

Upbringing of the person, which includes solving the problems of development of the person and formation of the qualities of the person, corresponding to the progressive purposes and requirements of the society, is in need of comprehensive philosophical reflection. Upbringing is a never-stopping process of mutual referencing, “meeting” of the person and the world, which results in new forms of their mutual existence. Therefore, today, in the conditions of deepening of the knowledge about the human being, there is necessary to study the issues of formation of acomprehensive concept of upbringing. A very important role here is played by the philosophy of upbringing, as an integral part of the philosophy of education, which gains increasing significance in the entire complex of scientific knowledge about the human being.

The essence and the structure of religious identification are revealed in the article. There are analyzed the factors which influence the formation of religiousness. Intercommunication is revealed between the spiritual values and self-determination of the person. There is uncovered the importance of the value component of religious identification; there is performed an analysis of value orientations and norms of the person’s behavior; and this allows toidentify the specificities and contradictions of the spiritual culture of the person in modern society. The Truth, Faith, and Love are the priority values for the believers. There are investigated the causes of rapprochement and interpenetration of the church and the person. As a result of such interaction, religion penetrates the mass consciousness and uplifts its role in the state.

The purpose of the article is to present the experience of corporal and spiritual culture in the religious-mystical, intellectual-educational and physical-culture-health improving practices of Ancient Russia as the factors of formation of the all-round developed person. The author reveals the basic ways of becoming the perfect person in the traditional Russian culture. In the article, a special attention is given to the old-Russian education and upbringing, which was built on obedience as the main element of honoring the God. The basic idea of the old-Russian education and upbringing was the formation of the image of God in the person.

What is «body» and what is «corporality»? There is considered the process of development of the philosophical ideas about human corporality. The author considers these definitions from various angles and using different approaches (epistemological, ontological, phenomenological, axiological, etc.) throughout the history of cultural studies.

In the article, there are analyzed the problems of initiation into the corporal culture in the higher education system. The reasons of illness in the modern city are considered. One of them is the ignorance or unwillingness to know the laws of life of the body while it is healthy. Another reason is the unwillingness or insufficient desire to follow these laws, because to do that there is required the will and the reason which are lacking while the person is healthy. The task of education is to give this knowledge, to waken the reason and to strengthen the will. There is presented the author’s own system of health improvement, which includes 4 parts: 1. Overcomingoneself; 2. Maintaining communication with the world: with the earth, water, air, and the cosmos as a whole; 3. The basic systems: movement, nutrition, drinking, breathing; 4. Helping yourself: purification, supporting the weakened organs and the basic systems of the organism.