tutor

The relevance of the research is due to the trends developing in the Russian education that are connected with updating the approaches and principles of the pedagogical activity based on tutorship ideas. The formation of a new pedagogical profession of a tutor in mass educational practice has objectifi ed the problems associated with a unifi ed understanding of the key categories of tutoring by the pedagogical community. These categories determine the essence and peculiarities of professional tutoring.

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.