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The author substantiates the feasibility and analyzes the essence of a synergistic approach to the competence based management training for future high school teachers. The article highlights the key provisions of synergetic methodology and investigates the basic principles of synergy, you should consider when the competence-oriented management. Thus the realization of the synergetic approach to training future high school teachers was substantiated.

The present stage of social historical progress - an epoch of becoming of the knowledge society, in formation and which development the special role is allocated education. Actualized the problem of the quality of education, which must meet the requirements of the time. Taking into account the multi-dimensionality of this concept, the article analyzes the definition of «quality education» presented at the Federal Law «On Education in the Russian Federation». Features of the modern approach to quality management of education, as well as prospect of perfection of an education system in a society of knowledge come to light.

In the clause the phenomenon of «a social solvency» as the education quality indicator is considered; a number of conditions for successful forming of pupils’ social solvency, based on the results of long-term skilled-experimental work of pedagogical staff of Tyumen and Khanty-Mansiysk is offered.

There is presented an analysis of the experience of implementing CDIO in classical universities. The problems of integrating the curriculums are considered. There is characterized the specificity of application of CDIO in the framework of the Bachelor and Master training in the engineering and humanitarian areas, as well as in students' socialization. Implementation of CDIO is interpreted as an innovative strategy of educational management.

It is shown that the process of globalization is universally accompanied by a kind of complex method called “foresight”. Foresight creates a new multidisciplinary picture of the constructed social reality, creating a new look at old concepts and creating interdisciplinary mental attitudes, including on the "here and now." The main focus of foresight has design “desired future”. Modern foresight – a complex method of analysis, examination, assessment, design and implementation of future social and reflexive support such projects. Foresight is specially designed for prediction and control in the context of globalization. Foresight is a comprehensive set of multi-level mental and organizational methods, such as the Delphi technique, a method of logical models, structural analysis, modeling, brainstorming, SWOT– analysis, method of scenarios etc. Broad representation and no alternative method require foresight of its ontological and epistemological explanation. On the one hand the power and effectiveness of foresight due to its content of compilations: Foresight has absorbed almost all of the known analytical tools and more specific methods. On the other hand, epistemology foresight has broad philosophical grounds, therefore, not surprising that the “analysts” and “technologists” of globalization in all its forms using this method.

The authors analyze the development trends of distance education in its interrelations with the development of the society of knowledge. These trends are examined in connection with the objective vectors of development of the society and technology. The specificity and potential of distance education and virtual distance education are shown in the article. The relations are analyzed between the foreign electronic educational resources and the national educational sovereignty of Russia. The challenges for the domestic educational market are described. The path to support the competitiveness and development of the domestic distance education is outlined.

The current requests of the state towards higher education are to produce innovative products; such production is impossible without using innovative processes and technologies. One of these processes is effective communication of the higher education institution within social networks. However, there are still more questions than answers concerning the search of network efficiency. The article describes the author’s view on the process of Russian higher education institutions’ starting to use social networks. It analyzes the mechanisms of network activity motivation developed by the higher education institutions. Productivity is determined of the social network activity according to the choice of the forms of network cooperation.

The authors analyze the backbone factors in constructing a new educational model of the higher education institution. The paper investigates the specifics of electronic educational space, its role as a consolidating tool of the educational system. On the example of constructing of a management system for e-learning, it is shown how the requirements of the modern educational model are implemented in practice; the perspective directions of the further development of this model are indicated.

There are presented the results of integration into higher education of special reflexive information technologies: the cross-technologies of the situational center. There are outlined the key features of these technologies. There is substantiated the category of meta-thinking as a cognitive-personal resource of innovations and a source of the transformational activity of the future professional. There is described experimental substantiation of the effectiveness of the cross-technologies of situational center for reflection and bringing together of the image of the demanded graduate from the point of view of all subjects of the design education. There is proved the influence of the information reflective cross-technologies of situational center on the dynamics of development of meta-thinking of the person and his/her value-professional priorities.

The article reveals the impact on human health of a social phenomenon as media information educational space. Last interpreted as educational space, which is integrated with the media space and operates through the use of computer technology and electronic information networks. Focuses on the characterization of risk to human health that arises within the investigated phenomenon.

The purpose of this article is to describe the methodological aspects of developing a multi-lingual multidisciplinary system to support online competitions. The properties of existing systems of this class are described. The main shortcomings of these systems are the need of the code modification when adding new languages, the lack of support of the multidisciplinary character, and lack of privacy of the tests added to the system. The focus of the work is a multi-user multi-stage mechanism for adding new tests. This process ensures the confidentiality of stored information about tests and test answers. Examples of using the system are given.

The existing philosophical origins of the metamorphism problem attest to the fact that in science the intention of reflection has a potential possibility to identify not just the mistakes but rather those causal relationships on which the desired results depend. The analysis of the situation in research shows the importance of philosophy there: people are guided by motives, the original world outlook orientations, personally actualized willingness to set goals and choose the ways to achieve them etc. Philosophy promotes setting and formulation of questions, without answering which the decisions cannot be productive. The person responds to the general questions of existence, social life, when the personal interest in these issues is awakened; and without this there is no awareness, no deep understanding of the fundamental statements of philosophy as the basis of personal insights into the events occurring in real life, which is vital for conscious and responsible decision-making. It is exactly philosophy that is called to teach to "read" the book of life with all its contradictions, revealing to the person the surrounding reality as a set of real-world conditions, which are the basis for setting productive and achievable goals.

In the article, the evolution of axiological bases of society and university on the example of the German university is considered. The priority of pure reason, solitude and freedom in modernity is converted through overcoming the political and social indifference in the form of solidarity in the middle of XX century and arrives into pluralism of values, individualization and communication in postmodernity. The risk of losing responsibility among academics in the modern supranational globalized society is discussed; and as a way to overcome this risk there is suggested understanding of ecological unity as the foundation of internal responsibility.

The article deals with a new situation in the education sector, which is conditioned by the peculiarities of modern stage of development of the national education system and is determined by the need to rethink the value-related principles of education in the twenty-first century through the lens of priorities of sustainable development of Ukraine as an independent state. A specific feature of modern social cognition, which defines a new paradigm, is that it is carried out through the analysis of cognitive attitude to social phenomena, which is accompanied by profound rethinking of the communicative nature of social reality, changes in the socio-communicative sphere.

This article gives the characteristic of studying process of followers and population within Islamic education. The author points out that there are official «Sunday Schools» and unregistered «Private Madrassas» as alternative, and also stresses their features in Russia. Besides, the author considers some problems of governmental regulation, caused by the lack of formed system of Islamic education. Comparative analysis of such educational institutions is based on the materials of author's survey in religious study.

Reflecting on the problems of interaction between society and nature, the author reveals a number of contradictions regarding the existence of two basic models of education: the techno-economic and environmental-humanistic ones, which correspond to the techno-economic or eco-humanistic world outlooks. A certain role in changing the public world outlook is played by education; more precisely, by its new models and principles which will allow in the future to minimize or eliminate the insoluble contradictions in the «society - nature» system. In view of these contradictions, there is considered in the article the problem of development of environmental education in the ethnopedagogics of the Buryat people taking into account the ethnoecological traditions, which are demanded in modern conditions of reforming the domestic education. The ethnoecological traditions of the titular nation of Buryatia, the accumulated unique experience of harmonious human interaction with the natural environment, the methods of its transmission, on one hand, and the threat of loss of this uniqueness, on the other, all this requires a special study involving a variety of sources and should be taken into account when developing the concept of development of the Buryat national school in the modern conditions.

A new method of the children intellectual development is suggested: a trilogy of intellect, the basic thinking operation of which is the logical operation of comparison. The method is created on the basis of Aristotle’s understanding of philosophy as “the science about the first reasons and origins” of cognition that must be a starting point of the surrounding world’s cognition at school. In addition to the generally accepted teaching the rational and mental thinking to schoolchildren, a new method is an effective mean of advanced development of the rational thinking of children with the help of general scientific comparative notions - the kinds of opposition, promoting a holistic world perception of schoolchildren.

The question is considered of organizing the educational activity in the schools of the North, taking into account the climatic, socio-cultural conditions and the traditional kind of economic management. The results are presented of monitoring the organization of educational activities in the educational institutions in the places of traditional residence and economic activities of the indigenous peoples of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). As a result, the authors have developed a teaching-methodical set of traditional knowledge for the pupils of lower grades taking into account the Federal State Educational Standards.

The article deals with the influence of the main philosophical and linguistic theories on the formation of multilingual education of schoolchildren in the European countries. As is shown in the present paper, the development of knowledge in philosophy has been tightly connected with new directions in linguistic studies aimed on understanding the nature of language and existing ties of language and thought, the ways of formation of the individual multilingualism and preservation of the multilingualism of the society. The solution of the modern problems concerning the European language education is entrusted to the school multilingual education, which is a multidimensional and multifunctional pedagogical phenomenon.

The purpose of the article is to analyze the factors that limit the freedom in the context of social security in modern Russia. This problem in the consideration of any of its aspects is crucial for the development of the society. At present, the values of freedom and social security of the person are interlinked, because they are influenced by various factors: the territorial, social, cultural, and environmental ones. Today, the person cannot determine for him/herself the importance and role of freedom, which leads to limitations in the implementation of his/her rights.

Scientific and technical progress, besides its positive role in the development of mankind, is accompanied by a number of negative side effects. Among them are the excessive technocratization of modern life; deepening world-outlook crisis; the loss of a number of humanistic orientations; the loss of understanding that it is the human being, his/her personality and welfare that should be the main goal of social development. The corresponding deformations are observed in all spheres of public life, including education; this is a destabilizing factor in the development of the society. The necessity is substantiated of humanization of science education for improving the educational space of Russia, eliminating the negative effects associated with scientific and technological progress. The author distinguishes and specifies possible directions of humanization of education, using the example of the physics course in the higher education institutions.

In the article there is considered the problem of formation of the spiritual-moral potential of the individual, his/her values through the introduction to the basic values of the traditional musical culture of singing on the example of accordionists. In the society, there is underestimation of the folk music creative work, patriotic education on the basis of the development of cultural traditions. The ideological and spiritual orientations of the young generation are blurred; and this often leads to undesirable actions and pursuit of false targets in life. Not only the education system in Russia has not become culture-centered and spiritually oriented, but it is increasingly becoming technocratic. Playing the Russian folk musical instruments is not widespread among children and adolescents. In schools, the art classes in folk music are virtually absent, pupils are not singing Russian folk songs but they are rather fond of the Western musical trends and avant-garde. Already the pre-revolutionary Russian philosophers expressed concern about the loss of national upbringing. In modern times, the problem has become even more acute. The author gives a brief analysis of the current periodicals, professional journals, provides interesting data obtained through sociological and cultural studies among the schoolchildren. There is revealed a clear relationship between hobbies, interests and priorities in the field of art, music, on one hand, and the spiritual-moral values, life orientations, aspirations and beliefs, on the other. Based on the materials of the conducted studies, there is proposed a set of measures of the spiritual-moral education of the young generation, a concept of educational and social activities in the field of preservation and dissemination of cultural values, introducing schoolchildren to them.

The author analyses the content of the systems of modern public education, considers their ability to reproduce "the people of the future" and reveals the reasons for their failing to meet the requirements of time. On the basis of this analysis, a way is offered in the article of modernization the content of public education for functioning according to the principle of working ahead of the "future requirements", which presupposes active and constructive participation of philosophers in the formation of public education programs and their content. The necessity of such philosophical activity is justified, some contemporary examples are given, and the basic directions are outlined.

The article analyzes the history of development of the interdisciplinary connections. The chronological sequence is given of their studying beginning from the researchers of the seventeenth century to the contemporary scholars. The features of the definitions of interdisciplinary connections suggested in the XIX and XX centuries, their differences and similarities are described. The lack of the quantitative approaches to the interdisciplinary connections is indicated. The expediency of developing the research of the quantitative estimates of interdisciplinary connections is demonstrated.

The problem of the first-year students’ motivation to active learning has always been topical for the teachers of natural sciences, especially physics. Recently, this problem has worsened due to the general changes in school education, the most significant among which is a decrease in the number of classroom hours devoted to the study of physics at school, which is the main reason of deterioration of the level of school preparation in physics. The authors analyze the problem of motivation to studying physics for the first-year natural science students using a model of the system of mental reflection, as well as the features of the achievement motive. There is studied the possibility of freshmen students’ achieving a high level of mental reflection by forming the motive of achievement. The article gives the examples of organizations of the purpose-oriented independent activity of students in learning physics during lectures and seminars.

The author analyzes and compares the content of professional competence of Bachelors and Masters of the “Linguistics” profile of training in the conditions of reforming the Russian system of higher education and organizing professional training in accordance with the requirements of the modern state educational standards. The article defines the terms of «professional competence of the Bachelor», «professional competence of the Master»; it reveals the similarities and differences of their characteristics for Bachelors and Masters of linguistics on the basis of comparison of the objects and kinds of professional activity, capacities and other components.

In the article the author examines the psycho-pedagogical conditions for transformation of the non-adaptive forms of victim behavior of teenagers in the educational space. A concept of non-adaptive forms of victim behavior is presented; its characteristics and the specific factors of its appearance are described. The results of experimental studies conducted among the adolescents in the Novosibirsk region are presented. There are identified and described the conditions under which the work of transformation of the non-adaptive forms of victim behavior in adolescents can be effective. There are given the results of the study of the safety parameters of the educational environment, serving as a basis for the formation of safe behavior. There are characterized the parameters of psycho-educational support, providing opportunities of transformation of the adolescents’ behavior.

The paper discusses the use of the cluster approach as one of the most effective ways of territorial development. This is a new form of partnership between business, education and culture. It is shown that the essence of the cluster approach is to create such a concept of territorial development that consists in developing the activity of maximum density and the value added chain of maximum length in the territory. The main goal is to maximize economic benefit and profit, which is to remain in the territory and to be used for developing infrastructure, living conditions and standards of life. Three types of clustering in the field of culture and education are analyzed. They are considered in the paper in the light of what is done in this respect in the Novosibirsk region.

The article considers the principles of connection between the artistic picture of the world and the socio-cultural phenomena. The contemporary art processes are characterized by dynamic changes that require specifying and understanding the prospects of development in the context of their dependence on the culture of society. The connection principle is built on the basis of a systematic approach using the concepts of art and social codes that are a kind of content translator of the world view and culture of the society directly in the works of art and artistic picture of the world.

The webinar was led by academician Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor J. S. Turbovskogo January 30, 2014