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The content and structure of general education are subject to well-defined patterns, According to the concept of Academician of the Russian Academy of Education V.S. Lednev, the most important of them is the balance of two factors: the content of a given subject area (mathematics, computer science, etc.), and a set of invariant types of human activity. These factors reflect aspects of reality that are the most significant from the educational point of view. The transformational activity of people undoubtedly belongs to such aspects. In the contemporary world, this activity is revealed through three key concepts: algorithm, technology, and project. These concepts become system-forming concepts of two subjects: «Informatics» and «Technology». Nowadays, transformative activity is inseparable from the processes of digitalization, which determines the content and structure of these general educational subjects, while the concept of technology plays a leading role. The ideological side of technology originates from the fundamental work of R. Descartes «Reasoning about the method». According to him, any activity should be carried out based on some method that allows for different levels of formalization. This opened up the fundamental possibility of automating the processes of manufacturing products, which made it possible to create a material platform for the future «industrial society». The development of technology is closely related to scientific knowledge. Moreover, the ultimate goal of science (starting with the science of modern times) is precisely the creation of technologies. The link between science and technology remained inseparable for a very long time and ensured the dominance of the formation that supported this link. The emergence of digital technologies, in which the idea of automation is practically brought to its logical conclusion, has radically changed the industrial and social context of technologization. However, its ideological side has undergone minimal changes. The entire context mentioned above is considered in the construction of methodological concepts and the content of the subjects «Informatics» and «Technology».

The research aims to analyze the possibilities of using a digital footprint to reveal the identification signs of a person’s professionalization in the field of education (pedagogy) based on big data technologies through social and search networks. The author identifies the reasons for using social and search networks to develop career guidance practices with schoolchildren. The research presents and analyses data about users of accumulated social networks (e.g. Facebook) and search networks (e.g. Yandex and Google). The author shows possible options for clustering user data in the Vkontakte social network with differentiation of user interests and third-party segmentation determined using neural network algorithms (one of the fundamental technologies of big data), based on a variety of different actions of the user of the social network inside and outside the Internet field. The author proposes a variant of a comparative analysis of user interests confirmed by a third-party segment between a group of people from the pedagogical community and a group of professionals from other fields. The hypothesis about the identity of the pool of interests of the pedagogical community is formulated and tested; their pattern is revealed and projected on the graduates of pedagogical specialties of the Tomsk State Pedagogical College in 2022, working in the specialty. Possible variants of the development of the proposed model of clustering the interests of the pedagogical community and extrapolation of the principles of work to different levels of pedagogical education are shown. The research materials are prepared based on the use of the following methods: theoretical and structural analysis, structural-semiotic analysis, and predictive analytics and simulation modeling based on neural network data.

The research focuses on the issues of the formation of students’ professional self-determination and presents the organizational and pedagogical model for managing students’ professional self-determination and the results of its testing in the municipal information and educational environment. Technological progress calls into question the existence of many contemporary professions. The system of formation of professional self-determination should ensure the rational distribution of labor resources, a person’s career choice, adaptation, and professional development throughout life. It requires changing and updating the organizational and managerial mechanisms existing in educational organizations and municipal educational systems and career guidance methods for students.

During the experimental work, the authors have developed and tested an organizational and pedagogical model for forming students’ professional self-determination/ Moreover, the authors have created a municipal information and educational environment that has interactivity, and multifunctionality and operates in the network interaction of all subjects of the municipal education system. The interdepartmental coordination council for the training of professional personnel provides organizational and managerial support for forming the municipal information and educational environment.

This environment provides students’ information and self-education, meets the needs of all its constituents (i.e., students, parents, educational organizations, employers, etc.), and contributes to the formation of a basic personality culture and necessary competencies for students’ labor and social self-determination.

The municipal information and educational environment include educational organizations, enterprises, and institutions of all forms of ownership, functioning based on network interaction. In this environment, the educational process is carried out through the implementation of advanced pedagogical technologies: open network educational programs, elective courses, and key events implemented by basic educational organizations in the conditions of functioning of a unified municipal information and telecommunication environment (i.e., Internet platforms, educational portals, and public channels of career guidance).

Teaching, developing, educational, communicative, coordinating, and managerial functions are implemented in the information and educational environment of the municipality and the educational organizations that function within it.

The research presents the practice of the University Gymnasium (boarding school) of Lomonosov Moscow State University in the context of the traditions of university education and Russian developments in the field of general education of children with increased educational needs. The authors indicate the historical line of the emergence of university gymnasiums in Russia. The design within the Gymnasium of a complex open nonlinear system capable of self-development, which is based on the integration of academic subjects, project activities, creative formats and broad communication with external subjects of educational, scientific and industrial spheres, make it possible to implement an educational model that forms high meta-subject educational results of students. Key characteristics of designing a gymnasium as a complex open system include openness, which provides a mode of development; interchange of energy and information with other systems; disequilibrium of the state; the ability to perceive external influences; and external influences as «points of growth» of the system. These positions allow us to solve the problems of gymnasium development: building a gymnasium as a practice of developing variable universal education; designing individual trajectories of developing education; modeling forms of cooperation and social construction; introduction interdisciplinarity as a principle of reality research; developing psychological competence; ensuring modularity and nonlinearity of forms of education; providing dynamism of schedules and different ages. These tasks are solved based on modeling the development of the gymnasium in the internal and external spaces. The model’s essence lies in the areas related to the development of technologies for conducting lessons and implementing interdisciplinary team projects within the framework of Lomonosov MSU scientific and educational schools, as well as a spatial and event-based educational environment. Moreover, the essence of the model includes the development of university identity and the construction of an extensive system of external communications based on the Community of University and Innovative Schools and the «Vernadsky» scientific and educational platform.

This paper describes the authors’ long-term pedagogical experience in creating and implementing a special program for systematic repetition, expansion and deepening of the full school course of mathematics in general. This program is based on the principle of the didactic spiral and is applicable both in the framework of regular school lessons and in the implementation of additional education. The work highlights three main stages of student preparation: basic, advanced and creative. Together they contain exactly seven clearly distinguished turns of the didactic spiral. After passing each such round, the student (in this case, as a rule, the future entrant) is more or less ready to solve problems in all sections of the school curriculum at once, which is especially important for participation in Olympiads held during the school year. The first, basic, stage covers two turns of the spiral, which can be conditionally called linear and quadratic. The second stage, advanced, already consists of four turns corresponding to the four main methods of a logical nature: the enumeration of cases, equivalent transformations, the introduction of notation and the conclusion of consequences. The third, creative stage is represented by just one turn, at which all the material passed is already passed from a research point of view. It examines four main methodological approaches available within the school curriculum: algebraic, logical, functional and graphical. The choice and implementation of these approaches in solving specific tasks is the essence of this final round and stage.

The existing system of final certification in the form of the Unified State Exam (USE) has been working for more than one year. However, disputes about its expediency and effectiveness do not subside. Some participants of these discussions rightly indicate that USE allows enrollees from remote regions of Russia to participate in introductory tests, remaining in their region. Their opponents are equally rights to criticize the apparent shortcomings of this form of control and offer to abandon the USE in favor of the Soviet system of the final certification, in which final exams at school and introductory tests in higher or secondary special educational institutions were not combined. Agreeing with supporters of the organization of local exams, the authors consider the arguments of opponents of the USE. The idea of a project called the USE can be conditionally formulated as follows: to create a line of tasks that makes it possible to compare all high school graduates by the level of training, rank them based on the results of this comparison, and distribute them between universities and colleges. For this reason, the USE is a mandatory exam for all school graduates and is conducted using a single technology. What issues are discussed in the disputes around this project? First, many are perplexed by the unreasonable identification of each school graduate with an enrollee for some university or colleges. Second, a high percentage of dropouts among first-year students indicates a weak correlation between the results of such measurements and the readiness of enrollees to study at universities or colleges. This publication is devoted to the analyzing of the problems discussed within these topics, as well as proposals on possible ways to resolve them.

The authors analyze the activity of children’s public organizations of the 20th century. The research discusses the relevance of creating «Bolshaya Peremena» clubs in educational organizations. The activity of these organization is formed based on the conceptual ideas of scientific schools of V.S. Mukhina «Phenomenology of the development and existence of personality» and L.I. Novikova «A systemic approach to the upbringing and socialization of children and youth». A methodological basis lies in presenting the results of fundamental research by such psychologists and teachers as L.S. Vygotsky, L.I. Novikova, V.S. Mukhina and N.L. Selivanova. The essence of their research lies in recognizing the priorities of personal development, the values of the childhood period and the activities of the younger generation. The research considers the activities of the «Bolshaya Peremena» clubs as a natural social environment in which the younger generation acquires personal and acute social meanings of life and activity and «undergoes» preparation for the productive realization of their potential in the current conditions of public life. The authors describe the educational space of the «Bolshaya Peremena» clubs, which aim to create an environment conducive to creating favorable conditions for the personal development of children and adolescents and the activation of personal and social maturity. The «Bolshaya Peremena» clubs are built on the principle of a child-adult community, which is based on the democratic style of adult influence on the child. The ability of an adult to show identification increases the child›s self-esteem, mood and social activity. Children transfer the actions of identification assigned by an adult into communication with peers: the club space becomes a school of social relations for children. In conclusion, the authors express possible risks of implementing the considered project. The essence of these risks come down to the erosion of effective elements of pedagogical practice in connection with the creation of the Russian Movement of Children and Youth, founded by «Bolshaya Peremena» and the subsequent integration of existing children›s movements and communities. The authors emphasize that the «Bolshaya Peremena» clubs are exclusively voluntary public associations, the main role of which is assigned to schoolchildren.

On December 12, 2022, Irina Georgievna Hangeldieva, Professor, Associate Professor of Philosophy, teacher of the Department of Educational Systems Management, Faculty of Pedagogical Education, Lomonosov Moscow State University, died.

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By the beginning of the 19th century the Russian educational system was being formed in the context of European tendencies, significantly influenced by the internal processes of the country’s modernization. Russia’s prosperity in public consciousness was associated with enlightenment. General and pedagogical education were the links of a single system under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Public Education. Common principles were formed: the priority function of education; a deep, «with reserve», scientific basis of education; a special attitude towards the personality of the teacher as a bearer of knowledge and high spiritual qualities. Only teacher training institutions could fully provide training for such a teacher. However, as disclosed in this research, teacher training institutions repeatedly went through reforms and radical transformations, which, along with funding difficulties, could not ensure the opening of new schools. This led to the emergence of schools of different departmental affiliation (spiritual, military, zemstvo, factory and others) and educational institutions to train teachers for them. In the early 20th century, the pedagogical community and deputies of the State Duma, in the hope of introducing universal education, argued for the creation of a full-fledged state system of teacher education. However, this was possible only possible with the establishment of Soviet power and the transition to a single school system. A coherent model for the training of teachers with specialized technical schools and institutions, which ensured the task of introducing universal education was finally formed only in the 1930s. In the middle of 20th century, the USSR was among the world leaders in terms of quality education.

Currently, Russia is leaving the Bologna system of education, and society calls for an objective assessment of the existing model of teacher training, the further development of which should consider the lessons of the past and promote Russian traditions in the international scientific and pedagogical space.

The research discusses monitoring outcomes of quality of the main educational programs applied to undergraduate, graduate and specialist programs performed by higher education institutions subordinate to the Ministry of Education and Science within enlarged groups of specializations and majors (EGSM) 44.00.00 “Education and Pedagogical Sciences.” The main research outcomes are as follows: 36% of the main educational programs within EGSM 44.00.00 are the programs that impose an educational process of a disciplinary type. The research reveals issues of discrepancy and disunity of the discipline contents, absence of internal wholeness, unevenness in the distribution of psychological, pedagogical, disciplinary, and methodological training, and the absence of orientation towards the unified (complex) exam, which would ensure testing of learning outcomes achievement within preplanned competences. These tendencies are especially typical for the main graduate educational programs.

Final qualification works lack reference to research data in scientific works and data of official documentation issued by governmental bodies and state statistics, including data in the field of regional education. Programs lack modules (disciplines) aimed at developing the worldview of future teachers; there is no workload designed for the Russian language and literature. To proceed, there are no temporary and organizational opportunities to secure in-depth study of psychological – pedagogical and (or) other disciplines.

Considering the above, the professional education of future teachers is performed fragmentary, following the reactive type, that is, reacting to discreet teaching tasks of which is ineffective either for the development of any group of competencies, or, in general, for the professional development of a Russian teacher.

The research presents a conceptual approach to monitoring in the higher education system. The presented problem is considered within the framework of the methodology of post-industrial education. According to the definition by A.M. Novikov, the academician of the Russian Academy of Education, the methodology of post-industrial education a doctrine of the implementation of activities, that is, its logical structure, forms, methods, and means. The authors of this research argued the stated approach of monitoring research, substantiated by the pedagogical practice. At the current stage of social development, one of the conditions for increasing the effectiveness of vocational education is to find ways to improve the pedagogical process of the universities. The solution to this issue lies in the field of managing the educational process of the universities, where the most important component is control over the development of specialist’s degree programs and the results of student learning. The information component of this process is the monitoring of education quality. The scientific and pedagogical literature uses various definitions to determine the essence of monitoring. The authors of this research substantiate the characteristics of pedagogical monitoring from the standpoint of current requirements for education. These characteristics are as follows

• systemic diagnostics of qualitative and quantitative characteristics of the efficiency of functioning and tendencies of self-development of the educational system;

• analysis of objects or phenomena of pedagogical reality in order to provide teachers with high-quality and timely information necessary for making managerial decisions;

• continuous scientifically based prognostic monitoring of the current state and the development of the pedagogical process in order to optimally select goals, objectives, and means of their solution.

Tracking the strategic trend in teacher training should be considered from the standpoint of a monitoring study graduate programs as one of the necessary conditions, acting as a prerequisite for studying the phenomena of contemporary pedagogical reality and their explaination.

The research considers the problem related to the consistency of forming the research competence in students of pedagogical specialties during university education. The authors analyzed 1319 educational programs of higher education in pedagogical specialties, including 924 undergraduate programs and 395 graduate programs. The authors consider qualitative indicators of systemic representation of research work in educational programs, that characterize the complete (comprehensive) systemic representation (i.e., represented in theory and in both types of practices – training and work), as well as seven heterogeneous types of its violations. The authors found that complete systemic representation occurs in only half of the graduate programs and in less than a third of undergraduate programs. Accordingly, various violations of systemic representation are found in more than 50% of graduate programs and 73% of undergraduate programs. Among the violations of consistency in undergraduate programs, the most common is the lack of research work in the training practices (20%). In graduate programs, the most common is the lack of research work in the training practices (22%) and work practices (17%). The authors determined that the systemic representation of research work in undergraduate and graduate educational programs is influenced by such external factors as the legal status of the university (state or non-state), the independence of the university (an independent university or a branch of the university), the university’s profile (pedagogical, humanitarian, technical, or universal), the form of education (full-time, part-time, or correspondence), and pedagogical specialty (five specialties for undergraduate and four for graduate). Practical recommendations are formulated for universities to improve educational programs of higher pedagogical education in the aspect of strengthening the systemic formation of students’ research competence.

The research analyzes the variability of the representation of research work in the structure of practices of educational programs of higher education in pedagogical specialties. The sample included 2025 programs, including 1373 undergraduate and 652 graduate programs.

The authors used several absolute (in credit units) and relative (in percentage) indicators that characterize the educational program. Absolute indicators included the volume of training practices, production practices and practices in general, as well as the volume of research work as part of each type of practice. Relative rates included the share of research work in each type of practice. Using non-parametric statistics methods, the authors reveal a high variability of research work in the practice structure of the considered educational programs. For example, the share of research work in the total amount of practice for undergraduate programs varies from 0% to 75%. For graduate programs, this indicator varies from 0% to almost 90%. It is established that the representation of research work in the composition of practices is significantly influenced by such factors as the legal status of the university (state or non-state) and the university’s profile (pedagogical, humanitarian, technical or universal). In turn, the specialty of training (five specialties were considered for undergraduate programs and four specialties for graduate programs) and the form of education (full-time, part-time or correspondence) have less influence. Based on the research results, the authors formulate recommendations for improving the educational programs of higher pedagogical education in terms of the representation of students’ research work in the structure of educational and industrial practices.