Педагогика развития и сотрудничества

The author proves that the leading means for creating a system of individual value attitudes is a problematic personality-related educational situation as an element of unity of epistemological and axiological situations. Pupils’ value attitudes formation process is revealed in the context of attitude towards responsibility as a socially significant value. Problematic personality-relevant pedagogical situations promote potential actualization of axiological environment of humanitarian education.

The article covers the author’s understanding of professional and personal self-determination as a continuous, dynamic process that characterizes the entire path of becoming a professional. We show that professional growth of a person is connected with his constant acquisition of a higher level of self-appraisal as an expert and comprehension of his ideals. It is noted that paradigmatic multiplicity of pedagogical reality raises the necessity of free and responsible choice of professional values, ways of teaching for a modern teacher.

The article discusses developmental character of cultural globalization processes taking into consideration variety of equal cultures throughincreasing the number of integral connections that promote mutual understanding between peoples, cultures, and traditions that take part in the dialogue. Relation between modernization processes and socio-cultural dynamics, ecologization and globalization of the society and national cultural tradition, values, and identifications are significant for this study.

The article reveals basic provisions of a valuable approach in humanitarian education. Universal humanistic values are treated as the basis of goal-setting and selection of humanitarian subjects’ content. It is proved that the system of valuable relations of a personality is the process and result of the solution of educational problems in modern school humanitarian education. The structure of the valuable relation is defined (cognitive, emotional and estimated, personal and semantic, activity components).

This article noted the relevance of the study of healthy lifestyle concept, which is linked to its practical importance and value of health. In the work we discuss component composition of healthy lifestyle within the framework of axiological, systemic, cultural and personal activity approaches in detail. The author conducts extensive analysis of the interdisciplinary aspects of healthy lifestyle related to medicine, psychology, sociology, philosophy, and pedagogy.

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.