research

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 relevance of studying resilience is among other things conditioned by faster evolution of social objects, increase in general uncertainty, lack of stability, complexity and ambiguity of the dynamics of their state, which, in their turn, lead to an increase in the requirements for adaptation mechanisms of an individual and social groups (families, collectives, sports teams, managerial or project teams); the importance of an individual’s socio-psychological and psychological resources is increasing.

The increase of uncertainty, instability, complexity, ambiguity of the dynamics of the condition of social subjects are among the issues that make vitality problem topical. This results in higher standards for adaptation mechanisms of an individual and social groups (families, work groups, sports, management, project teams) and greater importance of socio-psychological and psychological resources of a person.