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The interplay of geodynamic and sedimentation processes in the Central Asian orogen and the Siberian craton is discussed in several aspects: (1) general tectonics of the Central Asian orogen, (2) correlation of deposition and collision events, (3) comparison of deposition history and sediment sources on the northern and eastern margins of the Siberian craton, and (4) history of the Central Asian orogen (Altaids) and formation of Early Mesozoic sedimentary basins. Chemical and isotope compositions and geochronology of Neoproterozoic–Paleozoic sedimentary sequences indicate deposition synchronicity in basins of different types, within both the craton and the orogen. Thus geodynamic models of deposition in separate basins provide reliable evidence of the history of orogens flanking the Siberian craton. The study has confirmed the existence of the Vendian–Early Paleozoic Charysh–Terekta–Ulagan–Sayan–Olkhon strike-slip suture between the continental-margin complexes of Siberia and Kazakhstan, with the crust of juvenile and mixed types, respectively. Late Paleozoic large-scale strike-slip faulting deformed the previous tectonic framework and caused tectonic mixing of the older structures on different margins. This superposed deformation makes it difficult to decipher the paleogeography, paleotectonics, and paleogeodynamics of the Central Asian orogen.

We present U–Pb (LA–ICP-MS) data on detrital zircon from the Late Precambrian terrigenous rocks of the Baikal Group and Ushakovka Formation, western Cisbaikalia (southern flank of the Siberian craton). The sources of clastic material for the studied sediments are interpreted. The youngest group of detrital zircon grains from the upper Baikal Group and Ushakovka Formation permits assigning these sediments to the Vendian. The lack of Mesoproterozoic detrital zircon in most of the analyzed samples confirms the hypothesis of a global (~1 Gyr) break in endogenic activity within the southern flank of the Siberian craton through the Precambrian. The abundance of Neoproterozoic zircon in sandstones from the upper horizons of the Baikal Group and the Ushakovka Formation might be due to the shrinkage of the ocean basin as a result of the convergence of the craton with the microcontinents and island arcs within the Paleoasian ocean.

A comparative geochemical characteristics of Late Precambrian sedimentary rocks (Ust’-Kelyana and Tuluya rock units) in the Anamakit–Muya zone of the Baikal–Muya belt is given, and the conditions of their sedimentation are considered. The first results of U–Pb (LA–ICP-MS) dating of detrital zircons and Sm–Nd isotope data on the Tuluya unit deposits are presented. Petrogeochemical study showed that the studied sediments are first-cycle rocks similar in composition to terrigenous island-arc sediments. The low contents of Th, Rb, Zr, Hf, and LREE and high contents of Co, Ni, Sc, V, Cr, and Fe2O3* in the sandstones of the Ust’-Kelyana unit evidence that these rocks are similar to oceanic-arc deposits. In contrast, the enrichment of the Tuluya unit rocks in Zr, LREE, Th, Rb, and Nb indicates their similarity to deposits of continental island arcs or active continental margin. Isotope-geochronological studies of the Tuluya rock unit showed the mixing of detrital material resulted from the erosion of Neoproterozoic island-arc igneous rock associations (625–700 Ma), like those in the Karalon–Mamakan zone (Yakor’ and Karalon Formations), and more ancient associations, like the Kelyana (812–824 Ma) and/or Dzhaltuk Groups. Judging from the minimum age of detrital zircon, the lower boundary of sedimentation corresponds to 0.6 Ga.

Geochemical and isotopic (Sm–Nd and Sr) studies of deposits of the Baikal and Oselok Groups in the southern Siberian Craton and LA-ICP-MS U–Pb dating of detrital zircons show that they accumulated in passive continental-margin settings in the Vendian. The time limits of sedimentation were assessed on the basis of Sr chemostratigraphy of carbonate deposits of the Baikal Group and LA-ICP-MS U–Pb dating of detrital zircons in first-cycle terrigenous deposits of the Oselok Group. The main provenances for rocks of these groups were constant. These were rocks of the cover and basement of the Siberian Craton. Tuffite horizons in upper portions of the groups are the only sign of Late Vendian activation of this block, which is reflected in changes of geochemical indices of terrigenous rocks and their younger Sm–Nd model ages.

The first U–Pb dating of detrital zircons from the Lower Carboniferous sandstones in the frontal part of the northern Verkhoyansk fold-and-thrust belt showed that detrital zircon age spectra for the Lower Visean (Krestyakh Formation) and the Upper Visean–Serpukhovian (Tiksi Formation) rocks are quite different. The Early Visean sandstones contain up to 95% detrital zircons of Precambrian age, while those of Late Visean–Serpukhovian age, only 55%. The shape of age distribution plots of Precambrian zircons for both samples is similar, indicating that reworking of terrigenous sediments of the Krestyakh Formation or the same sources dominated in Early Visean time (crystalline basement of the craton, eroded Meso- and Neoproterozoic sedimentary complexes, and igneous rocks of Central Taimyr) contributed significantly to the accumulation of the Late Visean–Serpukhovian deposits. In the rocks of the Tiksi Formation, 45% of detrital zircons are of Paleozoic age, while 24% are Early Paleozoic, with prevailing Cambrian and Ordovician ages. Possible provenance areas with abundant igneous rocks of this age could be the Taimyr–Severnaya Zemlya and Central Asian fold belts extending along the northern, western, or southwestern margins of the Siberia. The presence of Middle–Late Devonian zircons is thought to be related to the erosion of granitoids of the Yenisei Ridge and the Altai–Sayan region. Early Carboniferous detrital zircons probably had a provenance in igneous rocks of the Taimyr–Severnaya Zemlya fold belt, on the assumption that collision between the Kara block and the northern margin of the Siberian continent had already occurred by that time. In Early Visean time, sedimentation occurred in small deltaic fans, likely along steep fault scarps that formed as a result of Middle Paleozoic (Devonian–Carboniferous) rifting. The clastic material came from small rivers that eroded the nearby area. Late Visean–Serpukhovian time was marked by a sharp increase in the amount of clastic material and by the appearance of detrital zircons coming from new provenance regions, such as fold belts extending along the northern and southwestern margins of the Siberian continent. A large river system, which was able to transport clastic material over large distances to deposit it in submarine fans on the northern Verkhoyansk passive continental margin, had already existed by that time.

We present geological, structural, and geochemical data on synmetamorphic granitoids from the Tutai and South Ol’khon plutons of the Ol’khon terrane (Central Asian Mobile Belt) with an estimation of the U–Pb zircon age of the Tutai granites. The structural and petrological data suggest the synfolding and synmetamorphic origin of the granitoids. The U–Pb zircon age of the Tutai granites (488.6 ± 8.0 Ma) almost coincides with the previously estimated age of quartz syenites from the South Ol’khon pluton (495 ± 6 Ma). The plutons occupy the same position in the regional structure. The granitoids underwent final deformations and metamorphism at 464 ± 11 Ma. The Tutai pluton consists of moderately potassic granites, whereas the South Ol’khon pluton is made up of quartz syenites and granites. The geochemical characteristics of granites from both plutons (low Y and Yb contents, fractionated REE patterns) indicate their formation under conditions of garnet crystallization in deep crustal restite. The higher Y and Yb contents of the South Ol’khon quartz syenites as compared with those of the granites suggest the lack of equilibrium between the quartz syenite magmas and garnet parageneses during their formation or evolution. The Tutai and South Ol’khon granites were derived from quartz–feldspar crustal rocks, whereas the South Ol’khon quartz syenites might have originated from a mixed (crust–mantle) source. It is presumed that the granitoids formed within accretion-thickened crust. Early accretion, which has been first identified in the region, affected not only the Pribrezhnaya zone (the zone of the Tutai and South Ol’khon plutons) but also the entire Anga–Satyurty megazone of the Ol’khon terrane. The accretion ended with the convergence and oblique collision of the Ol’khon terrane and Siberian continent, when strike-slip tectonics became ubiquitous.

Early Caledonides in the Olkhon region of western Cisbaikalia, being part of the folded framing of the Siberian craton, are a unique geologic object for studying processes of mantle–crust interaction at deep levels of the Earth’s crust. This paper describes restitic ultramafic bodies and boudins spatially confined to faults (blastomylonite sutures), as well as synkinematic granites related to amphibolite facies of metamorphism. Estimates are given for the PT -conditions of metamorphic rocks from the folded framing of the ultramafic bodies, the chemical and mineral compositions of ultramafic rocks, blastomylonites and synkinematic granites, and the results of U–Pb and Ar–Ar isotopic dating. Particular attention is paid to the thermal history of tectonic exposure of the ultramafic bodies as relics of the paleo-oceanic crust in the Early Caledonian collisional system of western Cisbaikalia.

An integrated geological and geophysical study was performed to investigate the region of junction of the eastern part of the Central Asian Fold Belt and the Siberian Platform in the Skovorodino–Tommot 3-DV reference profile line (52°–60° N, 122°–129° E), where the belt is separated from the Aldan–Stanovoi Shield of the platform by a series of deep faults. The main results are as follows: Seismic, density, and geoelectric characteristics of rocks were obtained and used to determine (refine) the intracrustal boundaries of tectonic structures; large-block structure of the Earth’s crust, caused by mantle faults, and the difference between the layered structure of the crust for the shield and fold regions were established; and available paleomagnetic data were used to perform palinspastic reconstructions for 180 and 140 million years, the most productive metallogenic epoch in the region, coeval with collision processes at the closure of the Mongol-Okhotsk paleobasin.

Packages of Late Paleozoic tectonic nappes and associated major NE-trending strike-slip faults are widely developed in the Altai–Sayan folded area. Fragments of early deformational phases are preserved within the Late Paleozoic allochthons and autochthons. Caledonian fold-nappe and strike-slip structures, as well as accompanying metamorphism and granitization in the region, are typical of the EW-trending suture-shear zone separating the composite Kazakhstan–Baikal continent and Siberia. In the Gorny Altai region, the Late Paleozoic nappes envelop the autochthon, which contains a fragment of the Vendian–Cambrian Kuznetsk–Altai island arc with accretionary wedges of the Biya–Katun’ and Kurai zones. The fold-nappe deformations within the latter zones occurred during the Late Cambrian (Salairian) and can thus be considered Salairian orogenic phases. The Salairian fold-nappe structure is stratigraphically overlain by a thick (up to 15 km) well-stratified rock unit of the Anyui–Chuya zone, which is composed of Middle Cambrian–Early Ordovician fore-arc basin rocks unconformably overlain by Ordovician–Early Devonian carbonate-terrigenous passive-margin sequences. These rocks are crosscut by intrusions and overlain by a volcanosedimentary unit of the Devonian active margin. The top of the section is marked by Famennian–Visean molasse deposits onlapping onto Devonian rocks. The molasse deposits accumulated above a major unconformity reflects a major Late Paleozoic phase of folding, which is most pronounced in deformations at the edges of the autochthon, nearby the Kaim, Charysh–Terekta, and Teletskoe–Kurai fault nappe zones. Upper Carboniferous coal-bearing molasse deposits are preserved as tectonic wedges within the Charysh–Terekta and Teletskoe–Kurai fault nappe zones. Detrital zircon ages from Middle Cambrian–Early Ordovician rocks of the Anyui–Chuya fore-arc zone indicate that they were primarily derived from Upper Neoproterozoic–Cambrian igneous rocks of the Kuznetsk–Altai island arc or, to a lesser extent, from an Ordovician–Early Devonian passive margin. A minor age population is represented by Paleoproterozoic grains, which was probably sourced from the Siberian craton. Zircons from the Late Carboniferous molasse deposits have much wider age spectra, ranging from Middle Devonian–Early Carboniferous to Late Ordovician–Early Silurian, Cambrian–Early Ordovician, Mesoproterozoic, Early–Middle Proterozoic, and early Paleoproterozoic. These ages are consistent with the ages of igneous and metamorphic rocks of the composite Kazakhstan–Baikal continent, which includes the Tuva-Mongolian island arc with accreted Gondwanan blocks, and a Caledonian suture-shear zone in the north. Our results suggest that the Altai–Sayan region is represented by a complex aggregate of units of different geodynamic affinity. On the one hand, these are continental margin rocks of western Siberia, containing only remnants of oceanic crust embedded in accretionary structures. On the other hand, they are represented by the Kazakhstan–Baikal continent composed of fragments of Gondwanan continental blocks. In the Early–Middle Paleozoic, they were separated by the Ob’–Zaisan oceanic basin, whose fragments are preserved in the Caledonian suture-shear zone. The movements during the Late Paleozoic occurred along older, reactivated structures and produced the large intracontinental Central Asian orogen, which is interpreted to be a far-field effect of the colliding East European, Siberian, and Kazakhstan–Baikal continents.

We generalize results of geological, geochronological, geochemical, and isotope-geochemical studies of the Vendian–Early Cambrian island-arc plagiogranitoid magmatism in the Altai–Sayan folded area and in the Lake Zone of western Mongolia. Based on these data, we analyzed the scales of development of plagiogranitoid magmatism, studied the petrologic composition and isotope characteristics of granitoids, and established the main sources of plagiogranitoid-generating melts and the leading mechanisms of formation of Early Caledonian juvenile crust.

We present petrological, isotopic, and geochronological data on gabbro–picrite plutons from the Altai collisional system of Hercynides (eastern Kazakhstan). The geological, geochemical, and geochronological data suggest that these rocks are indicators of the activity of the Tarim plume. The gabbro and picrites formed in two stages (~293 and 280 Ma) in an acid-to-basic succession, explained by a model for the interaction of thermochemical plumes with the lithosphere. Early igneous activity, which gave rise to subalkalic gabbro plutons, reflects the first interaction between the ascending plume and the lithosphere, with low-melting sublithospheric protoliths. Further interaction was characterized by the sublithospheric spread of the plume head with intense heating of the lithospheric base and possible intrusion of deep melts, which resulted in the formation of Cu–Ni–PGE gabbro–picrite plutons in the Altai collisional system and Northwest China.

The geologic position, age, petrologic composition, and petrogenesis of mesoabyssal plagiogranites in northern Rudny Altai, dated earlier to the Early–Middle Devonian, are considered. The Middle Carboniferous (322–318 Ma) age of granitoids has been substantiated by isotope-geochronological data (U–Pb zircon dating and Ar–Ar amphibole and biotite dating). Geologic-structural studies showed that the intrusion of granitoids took place at the time when compression was changed by sinistral faulting. This led to the conclusion that the granitoids formed at the peak of the collision between the Siberian and the Kazakhstan paleocontinents. Geochemical and isotope studies showed that most of the analyzed plagiogranites belong to high-alumina (continental) type and resulted from the deep melting (~15 kbar) of metabasic substrates compositionally similar to N-MORB (judging from results of geochemical modeling and the Nd isotope composition). The presence of plagiogranites of low-alumina (oceanic) type in the postgranite dike series testifies to the melting of the Rudny Altai heterogeneous crust at different depths during its collisional thickening.

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.

In connection with absence of precise understanding of essence and tendencies of reforming of the Russian vocational training the need for theoretical development of the problems, concerning social bases of development of domestic vocational training is staticized. Now there is no theoretical substantiation of necessity of conformity ofvocational training to a level of development of a society. The transitive condition of a society generates new vital senses and values, including in vocational training.

In the article, a topical problem of humanitarian education and philosophy of education, connected with the in-depth research of the transition periods in the society evolution and modern social reality, is considered. It is substantiated that in the social evolution there take place: 1) the inter-stage transitivity or transition periods (with the qualitative transformation of evolutionary stages) and 2) the inside-the-stage transitivity, inside of a single evolutionary stage, where multiple social changes occur within the limits of one quality. Transition periods in the sociocultural evolution of knowledge, including in the sphere of education, are described; the topicality of the philosophical approach to the problem is substantiated.

The aim of the article is to characterize the experience of integrationof the scientific research inthe field of “oralhistory” andthe educational processin the technical university. The article describes thepossibility of using”oralhistory”in the classroom sessions, as well as in the joint research of students and teachers.The authors consider students’ workwithoral sourcesas a method ofimplementing the competence-based approachtostudying.

In the article, the history of business games is considered; the development of business games abroad, the successes and failures of games in Russia is treated. The games for the top administrative personnel, application of games in universities, games in the military science are analyzed. A special attention is given to the business games in the system of training methods. The definition of a business game is given. The difficulties of the business game development are analyzed. The model of game is proposed,and the scenario of its carrying out is offered; preparing, carrying out and summarizing the results of the game are described. The space for carrying out of the game is described. The role of the teacher in the game is analyzed;a special attention is paidto the formation of knowledge, skills, and also personal, administrative and organizational qualities of the person. The synergetic criteria of the success of the business game are outlined. There is described the experience of application of the business game to the formation of a team in the Higher School of Business, Management and Psychology of the Siberian State Technical University.

In the article, the role of knowledge in the education system, which is connected with the mental abilities of the person and economic-social achievements of the society, is considered. The importance of training the managers to manage the innovative processes is shown.

The article draws attention to the problem of vocational training of the students in terms of the competence approach while studying Ecological training ata Construction University. Due to acuteness and the worldwide character of ecological problems,the modern engineer is supposed to possess new qualitative characteristic features and, alongside engineering activities,take part in the social-engineering ones. Ecological training of the students of a Construction University shouldnot be the aim in itself during the educational process. While solving this problem, it is necessary to create the demandfor ecological knowledge and the abilities for satisfying one’s own professional interests and professional self-realization. The competence approach in vocational training is aimed in this direction.

Education is one of the leading factors of social progress. Given that today’s youth is the period of greatest activity, and increasing its share in the population of working age, the study of the role and importance of education in the system of values of young people can contribute to the productivity of education and serve as material for the construction of programs for a harmonious development of the individual. The article is based on research conducted by the author in 2009 and 2010. at p. Dagestan. It examines and reveals the attitude of modern Dagestan youth the value of education and the place of education in the value orientations of young people. We also consider some aspects of the problems of employment and the adaptation of young people to the labor market.

The goal of the article is to studysuch significant values as freedom and education. Investigating their nature, individual and social, and analyzing various aspects of their interaction, the author tries to establish the reason of their opposition.

The purpose of the article is to identify the axiological problems caused by the processes connected with commercialization of higher education. The author describesthe risks of the social institute of higher education, caused by introduction of the quality management system and the use for the characteristic of higher educational institution of exclusively economic categories, and also the dissemination of such characteristics in the mass consciousness. The social mission of education and its independent value, and the complexity of the developed modern situation are considered.

As the purpose of modern system of upbringing which is to meet the requirements of the society and the state, there should be put the principles of humanism, that is, the formation of all-round and harmoniously developed person in the framework of «human dimension», i.e. realization of the civic position, readiness for life, work, social creativity, participation in democratic self-government and responsibility for the destiny of the country and the human civilization as a whole. The crisis in the system of values appears today even more dangerous than the economic one. The loss of the traditional, universal values leads to the emergence of anti-values (individualism, boundless freedom, cult of force) which are actively propagandized by mass media. Elimination of these phenomena should be one of the purposes of modern upbringing.

In the article, some problems of contemporary education are examined. In the contemporary world, the word “information” occupies a key place in the development of the human being. The educational process should not only correspond to the modernity but also be ahead of it. In the article,a number of problems are revealed in this respect, and some methods of their solution are offered.

The formation of the educational space, regional as well as the world-wide one, is currently going through substantial changes. The factors, which most influence these changes, are the informatization and globalization. In the article, the author’s view on the changes of educational space under the influence of informatization is presented. The author bases his arguments on two theses: 1) theonthological base of the changes of the educational space is its computerization; 2) the appearance (due to computerization) of the electronic educational space is a new type of educational reality, different from the traditional one.

In the article, the authors consistently consider the development of continuous art education. This allows them analyzing at the scientific and methodical level the existing contradictions in the education system, to substantiate the concept of continuous art education and its realization in practice. All this requires long and consistent work including the following stages: development of a model of development of continuous art education, program and target provisions of its development, and also technological approaches on realization of the main directions of the development of the regional-educational complex.

The article deals with features of the process of studying the continuity of secondary and higher vocational education in the modernization of Russian education.

In the article,an analysis is performed of the main viewpoints on the problem of the education content;the definitions are given of the content of a training discipline and the content of a professional educational program;the conditions are determined for solving vital problems in the sphere of the specialist training.