Педагогика развития и сотрудничества

The article presents the condition of the modern Higher Professional Education in Russia and the world, main tendencies of its development, primarily connected with economic and political aspects of the society’s development, with the adaptation of the educational system to the market relations. It shows that the Higher Professional Education is included into the broader context of socio-cultural life and is not considered to be a narrow sphere of social life any more.

The article discusses peculiarities of intellectual vagrancy in the educational sphere. It presents the comparative analysis of the terms “intellectual vagrancy”, “social parasitism”, “plagiarism”. The author shows possible reasons, which cause spread of intellectual vagrancy in the modern education. Intellectual vagrancy is considered to be conscious free acquisition of intellectual property products and right of authorship by a person, social group or country with an aim to get access to material and non-material benefits.

The article is based on the data of sociological and psychological pedagogical polls of the citizens of Russia and results of the educational program PISA-2009 and states the presence of reading crisis, decrease of the level of readers’ culture and readers’ competence among Russians. The author detects the set of objective and subjective reasons that cause modern situation of readers’ negativism. He offers conceptual characteristics of the terms «reading», «readers’ development», «readers’ cognition», «readers’ communication», and «readers’ competence».

The article deals with the problem of bringing the system of evaluating results in professional education to conformity with the evaluation of competitive ability of specialists on the labour market. The author reveals the essence of the main category for measuring results, which is competence and shows that this complex category must be measured by means of a number of techniques.

The article presents results of the analysis of psychological and pedagogical aspects of professional training of future teachers. The author marks that professional training of future teachers is primarily connected with the formation of the system of psychological and pedagogical knowledge and skills, which are necessary for carrying out pedagogical activity.

The article discusses the problem of multi aspect function of the internal nature of a personality, on the one hand, and versatile forms of its manifestation in the personal professional training of students of the Pedagogical Higher Educational Institution, on the other hand. It determines the grounds for research of productive educational activity of a student in the complex of four spheres of personal development.

This paper discusses the idea of fundamental nature of the university mathematics education. In the conditions of university education there are three interconnected groups of factors, which form the basis of the conceptual model of mathematicians training fundamentalization. The first group of factors is focused on updating the ways of specialist training of the increased creative potential – training for modern mathematicians.

The article reviews the problem of professionally - oriented language competence formation in students due to development of professional competence while learning a foreign language. Considering this fact, we have organized information-cognitive activity in studying a foreign language aimed at the formation of professionally - oriented language competence.

The article proves the urgency and shows the results of theoretical development and practical implementation of the pedagogical concept of formation of design culture of students, which are given within the framework of social and pedagogical environment of higher education institution. The concept contains the model of pedagogical process of formation of design culture of students and the author’s pedagogical technology.

The author of the article analyses the potential and risks of pedagogical maintenance of students’ subjective development in the educational environment on the basis of reflectiveenvironmental approach. Subjectivity is seen as an integral quality of a person, which includes activity, reflexivity, awareness, value orientations, and several other subjective properties. Reflexive-environmental approach to building this kind of maintenance is indicated as a possible way to overcome the problems mentioned.