DOI: 10.7256/2409-8736.2015.2.14388

Abstract: The era of global changes of the modern Russian society affect nearly all aspects of social life including such important areas as education - both general secondary and secondary vocational and higher professional education. The article is dedicated to multidimensional reorganization of educational institutions of higher professional education. Today higher education institutions including universities cover a huge scale of human activity; quickly obtained and used new knowledge and computer technology solve the problem of disconnection between education and training. The main methodological approaches to the solution of this problem can be found if we create a corporate University model that will allow higher education institutions to repond to the needs of the economy and to the changing requirements of the labour markets requiring highly skilled human resources. The main findings of the study is the position of the radical change of the status of the University in terms of contemporary socio-economic requirements. According to the author, today's University must comply with a number of parameters and characteristics which were not relevant for another two or three decades ago. These paramenters include environmental and process safety, new forms and methods of teaching, formation of a new corporate culture management, improvement of the quality of education and effective practice-oriented training of future specialists, citizens and personalities.

DOI: 10.7256/2409-8736.2015.2.14384

Abstract: Is a pedagogue always a pedagogue? This question is not so easy as it may look at first sight. What personal and professional qualities allow us to call a person a pedagogue? Why is the aphorism that “root of learning is bitter” usually treated as truthful. Can it be questioned or the opposite proved? How to make the learning process is not difficult and tiring, but easy and joyful? The article is dedicated to pedagogue’s role in educational process. One of the reasons for students’ low motivation, their disinterestedness, unruliness, bad record and infirm knowledge and skills etc is rather low level of teacher’s pedagogical culture. It keeps him from structuring and giving the material in the right way, from making it clear and explicit, vivid and interesting, important and useful for the pupils. The article deals with the principal components of pedagogical culture, ways and means of increasing efficiency of pedagogical process on the basis of pedagogue’s personal self-perfection. As the questions raised in it are topical, it may be interesting and useful for university and college teachers both in theoretical and practical aspects.

DOI: 10.7256/2409-8736.2015.2.14393

Abstract: Strategic management of the modern university is determined by many factors including global transformations that create a highly competitive educational environment. Post-Soviet space of higher education is undergoing a series of crises that are enhanced due to the overlapping of international and regional trends. The aim of the study was to concretize the risks and challenges facing the regional Pedagogical University, as well as in the development of strategies to overcome current risks and adequate response to the specific challenges. Applied the methods of conceptual analysis, in-depth expert interviews, analytics statistics. According to most experts modern universities are in a situation paradigm shift their activities. Universities that do not meet the paradigmatic changes in the social life, lose its status. Russian universities are no longer able to use the internal strategy of "imitation" of university activities. Existing proposals on the global education market radically change the post-Soviet map of higher education.

DOI: 10.7256/2409-8736.2015.2.14207

Abstract: The Internet allows to organize individual and group interaction between students and teachers during the learning. Traditional education is connected to a row of restriction which can be overcome by means of Internet resources. In this article the author considers possibility to get the second higher education and taking courses in foreign universities using the Internet. In this paper the author analyzes using distance learning in the educational process. The purpose of article to define the positive role, methods of implementation of distance learning and study main types through the Internet technologies. The theoretical analysis of the Russian scientific literature and review of the leading web resources providing online training are the methods of research of this article. The author gives the list of the best providers of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC).

DOI: 10.7256/2409-8736.2015.2.14427

Abstract: At universities philosophy is studied by students of all specializations. Pedagogical practice shows that in most cases philosophy is considered to be an impenetrable, little understandable and high-flown discipline. It’s clear that such a negative attitude to philosophy which forms forever for those who studied it at an Institute is unconsciously formed by philosophy teachers who deliver lectures and give seminars the way they like, the way they are used to, the way they think right without trying to increase the level of students’ learning level and motivation. Most university philosophy teachers don’t think how to show the students that philosophy is not a high-flown wisdom but the discipline closely connected with their lives, concerns, sorrows and joys, that it can be as interesting and useful as their pastimes. The author of the article, being a philosophy teacher, makes an attempt to answer the following three fundamental questions about teaching philosophy from different aspects: What is to be taught? How to teach? Why it is necessary to teach philosophy? The questions raised by the author, his ideas and pedagogical findings can help philosophy teachers to increase students’ learning interest and change their idea of philosophy status from negative to positive thus making teaching this discipline much more effective.

DOI: 10.7256/2409-8736.2015.2.14216

Abstract: The object of research in this article is corporate teaching English to staff as a contemporary pedagogical phenomenon. The matter under study is teacher’s professional activity in a business center. The author proves importance and advantages of corporate teaching English nowadays. Particular attention is paid to organizing this process and to analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of this work for a teacher compared to working in classic educational establishments.The method of research in the article is author’s analysis of his own experience of working as a corporate English teacher. Active observation of this process allowed to deduce theoretic generalizations as well as to spotlight particular nuances of this professional activity. The novelty of this article consists in its revealing the process of teaching academically and professionally successful adults. Besides traditional Pedagogy practically doesn’t deal with business while there is a demand for teaching services in it so it must be considered scientifically. The article’s novelty is also in distinguishing and proving advantages and disadvantages of this work for a teacher.

DOI: 10.7256/2409-8736.2015.2.14290

Abstract: The article is dedicated to one of the topical issues of rhetorical culture of the teacher. The degree of efficiency of educational process is largely related to the level of rhetorical culture, or the culture of public speaking in teaching. One of the main reasons for the lack of motivation of students, their disinterest and neglect, poor performance training, ill-digested knowledge, underdeveloped skills, etc. is not a high level of the culture of teacher's public speaking, which prevents him from properly building and properly applying the learning material, making it clear and intelligible, lively and interesting, meaningful and useful for students. Frequently a complex and confusing way of teaching, his inconsistency and confusion, together with the dryness and dullness is a direct consequence of the lack of adequate level of rhetorical culture of the teacher. As a result, the training becomes ineffective, difficult and thankless process both for students and for teachers. This article defines the concept of rhetorical culture, discusses its criteria, most of which are in compliance with the professional activity of the teacher of the basic public speaking law - harmonizing dialogue; and the basic principles of its implementation, including the portrait of the audience, the principle of proximity of the proposed material, the principles of specificity, clarity, correctness of the public speaking, his speech richness and expressiveness, principles of the motion, emotion, pleasure, and the main parameters of the effective techniques of speech. Due to the relevance raised in the paper it can be interesting and useful to teachers of higher and secondary educational institutions both in theoretical and in practical aspects.