individualization

The relevance of the study stems from the major issue of building a modern system of general education rooted in the principles of personalized learning. An analysis of socio-political changes and scientifi c research revealed existing gaps and problems in modeling the educational process. Integrating individualization and personalization into education is essential for meeting modern demands, as well as for ensuring equal opportunities, and enhancing the quality of education for all participants.

The goal of higher education individualization demands to study existing effective individual forms of teaching and to find ways of their implementation into Russian universities teaching and learning process. The research of a special teaching phenomenon – Oxford tutorial – allows eliciting its characteristic features and suggesting ways of its implementation. Modern authentic sources have been analyzed, Oxford university experienced tutors’ points of view have been synthesized, a classical tutorial definition is given.

The purpose of the study presented in the article is a theoretical analysis of socio-political and civic activity of young people in the context of processes of individualization and massification as contradictory but interdependent trends in the development of modern society. The relevance of the study is supported by the need for scientific understanding of conditions under which the formation of social and political subjectivity of young people and their choice of these types of activity take place.