Pedagogical support of sociocultural adaptation of foreign students

This dissertation is devoted to issues related to psychological support of cultural adaptation of foreign students. There is a substantial characteristic of the support as a professional activity favoring to successful socio-cultural adaptation of foreign students, aimed at activating of resource group aggregation (personal, institutional, environmental). Features of socio-cultural adaptation of foreign students in the modern higher school of Russia are gived out. There is a pedagogical program developed to ensure integrity of foreign students’ sociocultural adaptation supporting. Effectiveness of this program performing in university was experimentally confirmed via increased adaptation level among the 124 foreign students enrolled in RUDN (RUDN university). Results of this research could be used by high school teachers when developing lecture and practical materials on adaptation problems; individual and group consultations for foreign students; methodical recommendations for university staff. Because it’s reflected the content of pedagogical technologies and contributed to the successful socio-cultural adaptation of foreign students in a different socio-cultural environment.

Pedagogic legacy of moral development in pre-teens and teens

The dissertation addresses problems concerning pedagogic legacy of moral development in pre-teens and teens. This work covers legacy content of moral development in pre-teens and teens as a pedagogical process that consists of structural and functional elements as well as factors of its most effective pedagogical support. The present work defines essential features of moral values in modern environment as well as relevant characteristics of the discussed age group. There are pedagogical technologies providing the integrity of the process of moral development in pre-teens and teens. The efficiency of developed programs focused on assessing activities of pre-teens and teens is experimentally proved. The results of the research can be used by high school teachers for preparing lectures and practical classes about problems of the oncoming generation’s moral development in the context of the modernization of Russian Education System as well as for making methodical recommendations for homeroom teachers, mentors and educational specialists that reflect basics of pedagogical technologies providing successful development of moral values in pre-teens and teens.

Organization and content of the activities fulfilled by the educational territorial complex

The thesis reveals the stages of integrating the society’s mind-shaping resources into educational processes and determines the theoretical grounds for modelling an educational territorial complex. Within the research, the author developed and tested a model of such a complex and singled out the criteria for assessing the effectiveness of its operation.

Self-organization of educational activity as a factor shaping the subjectivity of high school students taking in-depth courses in certain disciplines

The thesis determines the components of self-organization of educational activities for high school students taking an in-depth course in certain disciplines. It also proposes a teaching content, which enables students to organize their educational activities by themselves (elective course “Fundamentals of self-organization of educational activities”). In the research, the author presents an algorithm concerning the interaction between teachers and students within self-organization of students’ educational activities. The experiment has confirmed pedagogical effectiveness of the proposed model for shaping the subjectivity of high school students taking an in-depth course in certain disciplines within comprehensive education.

Folk arts and crafts as a means of diversifying the development of teenage schoolchildren (based on the material of the Udmurt Republic)

The paper reveals the historical and cultural originality of the national decorative and applied arts of the Udmurt Republic, along with their teaching and mind-shaping potential. The research also substantiates pedagogical conditions for the development of teenage schoolchildren in the process of studying and mastering folk arts and crafts. Besides, the author developed a complex programme for general education institutions, including an elective course and a course dedicated to studying folk arts and crafts at the inter-subject level. The experiment confirmed the effectiveness of the theoretical model and the enriched technology concerning teenage schoolchildren diversified development within studying and mastering decorative and applied folk arts.

Pedagogical assistance spiritual moral to formation of the identity of the younger school student in out-of-class activity

Relevance of potential of out-of-class activity in pedagogical assistance spiritual moral to formation of the identity of the younger school student in modern sociocultural realities of Kazakhstan is proved. The model of pedagogical assistance spiritual moral to formation of the identity of the younger school student in out-of-class activity is developed. Level of readiness of younger school students for spiritual moral development in the conditions of out-of-class activity is determined.

Pedagogical ensuring esthetic education of children of middle school age in extracurricular activities of educational institution

By means of the theoretical analysis of psychological and pedagogical researches features of a phenomenon of esthetic education of children of middle school age in modern sociocultural realities are revealed. Relevance of esthetic education in the context of modern development of society is proved. The general is revealed and concretized special in the organization and the content of process of esthetic education of children of middle school age. It is developed functional and substantial model of esthetic education of children of middle school age in extracurricular activities of educational institution. Optimum pedagogical conditions of its realization are defined, and also recommendations about improvement of the studied process are formulated.