Introduction: the authors of the article set the goal of analyzing the solution of the problem of informatization of education in foreign educational institutions and to compare the material, technical, educational and organizational capabilities of Russian and foreign universities in the development of the information educational environment as a factor in the success of professional education.

Materials and methods: the study was carried out on the basis of scientific and pedagogical methods of analysis, comparative generalization and systematization of theoretical and empirical sources that determine the necessary objectivity and heuristicity of the conclusions.

Results: the authors concluded that the development of the information educational environment both in Russia and abroad is an important factor in the success of education: both secondary and professional. An increase in the number of students enrolled in individual curricula, a decrease in classroom hours in favor of hours for independent work of students, an increase in the curriculum of the percentage of disciplines of choice, the integration of distance learning, etc. requires the development of new tools to solve these problems and one of the effective tools is the educational information environment of the school.

Analyzing the information environments of Russian and foreign universities, the authors come to the conclusion that combining separate informatization tools used in various areas of an educational institution’s activity into a single information educational environment allows us to solve two main problems that currently concern the pedagogical community: learning efficiency and effective organization learning process

Discussion and Conclusions: the authors believe that the translation of the content and technologies of the educational process to modern electronic media can be carried out only if the achievements of pedagogical science and its methodology are preserved as the fundamental basis for designing modern educational technologies using information technologies. The conceptual basis is that the development of the content of the information educational environment does not involve the scanning of educational material, but the programming of interaction between the subjects of the educational process, taking into account the regularities of the educational and cognitive activity.

Introduction: the development of business dispute competence is aimed at achievement of the educational results connected with acquisition of personal experience in the types of activities the people are mastering in. Personal experience makes an obligatory component of any kind of competence of an employee. The process of competence formation of  this kind is connected with the solution of a number of problems: the specification of content of foreign-language education, the development of special technologies, the choice of training methods, classroom activities aimed at formation, development and improvement of such a competence.

Materials and methods: within the framework of conducted research general scientific methods of knowledge and also special methods of a research were used

Results: the cross-cultural business environment in contents of the educational program of optional foreign-language education "Business English" is described ("Business Result Upper-Intermediate", "Business Benchmark Upper-Intermediate"). The grounds for cross-cultural business dispute competence formation for businessmen in foreign-language education in business English are defined. Technological blocks of a cross-cultural business dispute competence formation for businessmen are described in detail in the didactic module "Business Foreign-language Mediation” in the course of business English for businessmen and entrepreneurs.

Discussion and conclusions: the content of special didactic module "Business Foreign-language Mediation" is designed on the basis of the conducted theoretical and practical research, the author’s personal experience in teaching a foreign language under different didactic and methodical conditions. It is actively used in the system of further foreign-language education, in the system of professional development, it provides positive results, trains businessmen for particular economic activity taking into account the features of the partner country, peculiarities of culture and mentality of business partners.

Introduction: competitions occupy a large share in the future activities of modern bachelors in physical culture. To organize and conduct competitions at various levels, it is necessary to acquire additional competence - the ability to organize and conduct competitions, to judge the basic sports and the chosen sport. The relevance of the study lies in the need to develop a course that provides professional training for bachelors of pedagogical education (“Physical culture” profile) for organizing and conducting competitions at various levels.

Materials and methods: we used the following research methods: theoretical - analysis, synthesis, modeling, comparison; empirical - questioning, observation and testing. We conducted a survey in order to identify the relevance of the developed author's course of additional professional training “Organizing and conducting sporting events” and introducing it into the system of continuous training for bachelors in physical culture.

Results: in order to master students' competence related to the organization and holding of sporting events at various levels, an additional educational program “Organizing and conducting sporting events” was developed and implemented. The purpose of the developed course is the formation of additional professional competencies that ensure the ability and readiness of students to conduct various kinds of competitions; formation of the ability to use a variety of physical culture to maintain health.

Discussion and Conclusions: the results of the study revealed the urgent need to expand the professional field of the future graduate in physical culture. A survey among the future bachelors in physical culture showed the need for the implementation of an additional course “Organization and holding of sport events”. To ensure the formation of additional professional competencies of graduates and future professionals in the field of competition to a new level, it is necessary to introduce into the educational process the author's course “Organization and holding of sport events”.

Introduction: the article deals with the formation of competences in the field of mathematical modeling of teachers of vocational training in the conditions of the information and educational environment of the university. A model of teaching mathematical modeling in the process of teacher training is proposed. The model is based on the following theoretical principles: the teaching of mathematical modeling of students at the university is ensured by the achievement of systemic integration and continuity of the components of the interdisciplinary space of future professional activity; a system-forming factor in the integration of interdisciplinary knowledge is mathematical modeling, ensuring the integrity, structure, hierarchy and dynamism of knowledge; implementation of the learning process of mathematical modeling is provided by the creation of organizational and pedagogical conditions

Materials and methods: in the process of  writing the article, the following methods were used - a theoretical methodological analysis and synthesis of the available special domestic and foreign scientific and methodical literature, a conceptual analysis of scientific articles and publications on the topic; the study and synthesis of both domestic and foreign developments; application of methods of generalization, comparison, forecasting.

Results: The issues related to the content and structure of the process of teaching mathematical modeling in the framework of professional training of future teachers of vocational training are considered. A modular training program "Mathematical modeling in vocational education" was developed and introduced into the educational practice of the university. An electronic teaching and methodical complex for teaching students to mathematical modeling, integrated into the information and educational environment of the university, which corresponds to the principles of fundamentality, openness, integration, interactivity, personification, has been developed.

Discussion and Conclusions the problem of the formation of competences in the field of mathematical modeling among teachers of vocational training is relevant and considered with identifying, understanding and clarifying the complex pedagogical conditions that ensure the effectiveness of teaching mathematical modeling in the process of professional training of university students.

Introduction: the relevance of this topic is due to the fact that at the moment there is no uniform structured approach to the creation of digital educational resources (DER), at the state level there are no clear requirements for their structure and content. Accordingly, there is a need to systematize DER and develop unified requirements for their creation, structure and content for the purpose of application in educational institutions.

The aim of the study is to identify a systematic approach to the structure and use of the DER in the educational process.

The object of study is selected DER.

The subject of the study is the DER in the educational activities of the modern university.

The scientific novelty of the research is as follows:

            identified existing approaches to systematization of the DER;

            proposed systematization of the DER for educational and methodological functions, by appointment.

            indicated the feasibility and the need to ensure the educational and educational process of the DER.

Materials and methods: the writing of the article was accompanied by the use of the following methods - analysis of literary sources, pedagogical experiment, comparative analysis, method of expert assessments.

Results: the practical significance of the work lies in the refinement and updating of the information component of the existing electronic educational and methodological complexes (EEMC) on the discipline "Information security", "Computers and peripherals" and "Introduction to operating systems" developed on the Moodle platform.

Discussion and conclusions: the problem of integrated assessment of the DER is relevant along with the formulation of requirements for the DER, since the issue of health protection in the conditions of working with a computer has priority.

Introduction: an Important task of national pedagogy is related to the understanding and analysis of the experience of educational systems of other countries that have a centuries-old pedagogical. The aim is to evaluate and use the most successful and effective developments of domestic pedagogy.

The experience of the UK is leading in relation to the development of individualization of education. This experience is elite, as the traditional tutor training system has been developed and implemented for decades, it has proved its effectiveness in the course of interaction with many national pedagogical systems.

Materials and methods: theoretical methods are fundamental for this study: the method of analogy of the concepts of mentoring, tutoring, support, maintenance; method of comparison, consisting in the consideration of the practice of tutoring from the Middle Ages to the present day and the experience of tutoring at different educational levels in the UK method of analyzing the experience of tutoring activities in educational practice in the UK and the experience of using the tutoring system in our days.

Results: One of the most important elements of the educational system of great Britain is a method of tutor student interaction and student in teaching and education, the occurrence of which relates to the period of the middle Ages. Technology tutor support involves thoughtful and well-organized psychological and educational support, namely assistance to students in identifying and solving abilities to reconcile their desires with real possibilities in identifying opportunities for growth and advancement in personal development, in orientation in a rapidly changing world. During the entire period of study, the student needs guidance and support, including effective response to emerging issues, ensuring the implementation of needs as they arise.

In the analysis of the tutor system of education as a means of improving the quality of education, we can not agree with the conclusion of many scientists, based on statistics from leading universities in England, that the improvement of academic achievements of students of both higher education institutions and schools is directly related to the tutor system of education.

Discussion and conclusions: foreign experience, in our case English education, containing a constructive practice of improving the quality of the educational process, becomes relevant for modern Russian education. Studying and analyzing the experience of the organization of tutor support in England, we can determine the incentive for a wider awareness of pedagogical reality, more clearly see the problems and solutions and identify areas for further development of Russian education in this area.

Introduction: the article deals with the problem of formation of professional interests of students with disabilities at the stage of career guidance. The need to identify the potential demand of students with disabilities for higher education is substantiated.

Materials and methods: identification of educational needs of students with disabilities was carried out in the course of monitoring using the survey method. The form of the survey is a survey of students of senior classes of correctional schools in the territory of 7 subjects of the Volga Federal district.

The results of the monitoring of educational Following the monitoring of educational needs of students having health limitations and  disabilities ,a quantitative and qualitative analysis is given. During the analysis of the monitoring results, the professional interests of students with disabilities, as well as the factors of their choice of profession were determined. Conclusions were made about the need for targeted work in the University specialist in career guidance with this category of students. The list of special needs of disabled people in higher education is formulated.

Discussion and conclusion: it is concluded that the provision of vocational guidance services contributes to a more responsible attitude to the choice of profession. Recommendations to Higher Educational Establishments are formulated to improve the implementation of career guidance for the participation of persons with disabilities and health limitations.

Introduction: The number of children with severe and multiple developmental disorders (SMDD) is increasing.  These children suffer from intelligence disorder, speech, sensory sphere problems, general and fine motor skills, behavior and communication disturbance.  A family, having a child with SMDD, faces a complex of various not only medical, but also psychological and pedagogical problems that are related to functioning of family, with parents fulfilling various roles in raising a child with disabilities.  Specialists do not pay enough attention to the needs of parents and child’s family aspects with which he is raised.  It is necessary to shift focus of attention from children rehabilitation with special educational needs (SEN) to accompanying family as a rehabilitation system.  From the point of family-centered approach view, effectiveness of accompanying children with SMDD by specialists depends on extent to which it is possible to intensify and strengthen parents’ resources.

Objective: analysis for problematic areas and resources of families raising children with SMDD.

Materials and methods: the theoretical and methodological basis of study are: 1) theory of ecological systems by U. Bronfenbrenner, in which he relies on thesis of L.S.  Vygotsky on  the role of development of social situation in establishment of a child’s higher functions; 2) a system-factor approach in analysis of problem areas and family resources; 3) a resource approach to improving the quality of family life, raising a child with SMDD.  We  used system analysis, comparative and analytical methods.

Results: from standpoint of a family-centered approach, families having children with SMDD have identified various problematic areas and resources at the level of various ecological systems that help them overcome these problems.  The family problems and resources are interrelated and can be represented in the form of specific factors.

Discussion and Conclusions: the family which has a child with a disability faces a complex of various medical, psychological, educational, informational and material problems. From the point of view of  family-centered approach,  the problems and resources of a family raising a child with SMSD are considered at the level of micro-meso-exo-macrosystems. In each system, there are factors that act as problematic  areas that have a resource potential for improving life quality of a family raising a child with SSD. The proposed system-factor approach which helps to identify problematic areas and resources of a family raising children with SMSD can be used to render early assistance effectively  and coordinate activities of specialists.

Scientific novelty. It is proposed to consider the problematic areas and resource statuses for families raising children with SMDD. From standpoint of family-centered approach and ecological (micro, meso, exo, macro) systems, the specifying factors affecting the quality of family life are :  pre-school, correctional and rehabilitative and public-state factors.

Practical significance.  The proposed system-factor approach to identifying problematic areas and resource statuses for families raising children with can be used to render early assistance and coordinate activities of specialists.

Introduction: topical for present-day psychology problem of psychological peculiarities of persons at the age of late adulthood is considered in the article. Possibility to use language and speech as a basis for cognitive functioning study is considered as well. Thought-language problem is traditional for psychology but the main scope is of theoretical character. The proposed study is an empiric one.

Materials and methods: a number of procedures have been used to reveal interrelations between language and different types of thinking (divergent, convergent and conceptual). J. Guilford’s test was used for divergent thinking, R. Kettell’s Culture-Fair Intelligence Test, CFIT was used for convergent thinking and B.V. Zejgarnik’s test for conceptual one. Stroop’s test was used for cognitive flexibility measurement. Direct association test and Chain association test were used for language study. 84 respondents aged 25-84 participated in the study. By means of cluster analysis they were divided into four groups with average of 28,6, 52,4, 64,9 and 75,8 years.

Results: comparative analysis reveals statistically significant differences only for paradigmatic reactions. Factor and regression analyses were used for analysis of interrelations between language and different types of thinking.

The results showed that only characteristics of convergent thinking correlate with language indices that characterized its complexity.

Discussion and Conclusions: dynamic characteristics of language correlate with person’s cognitive flexibility. But these dynamic characteristics do not change with person’s age and their use for thinking diagnostic in late adulthood is disputable. 

Introduction: as modern society undergoes global transformations, childhood as a historically determined socio-cultural phenomenon changes, as well. The transformations of modern childhood arouse increasing interest among the researchers, but it is also important to get an idea of how modern parents who grew up under different socio-cultural conditions see their child’s childhood now.

Materials and methods: we used the sentence completion technique. The results were processed using the method of content analysis.

Findings: the parents’ image of childhood has a certain structure and dynamics. The image of modern childhood transforms depending on the age of the child, whose childhood is described by the parents. The basic, steady components of the childhood image are parents, family, and the time that child spends with his/her parents. The dynamic components correspond to the peculiarities of child’s age-related needs: for a preschooler, this is positive emotional background created by the family (joy, happiness, sense of security), for a younger teenager, this is school and studying, for an older teenager, this is virtual communication, life in the information space. In contrast, the parents’ image of their own childhood is more static and stereotypical: its core content is close relationships with parents and family as well as strong positive emotional background (“happy childhood”) which corresponds to the image of preschool childhood.

Discussion and conclusions: the image of childhood reflects parents’ intuitive ideas about the basic needs of their children. In general, parents’ ideas about childhood correspond with the traditionally specified age-related content of the need-motivational sphere that doesn’t fundamentally change in the generation of today's children, although it is realized in slightly different forms. Adults perceive their own childhood as well as the childhood of their children directly, without evaluating it; however, more mature parents try to interpret the changes they observe in the modern childhood.

Introduction: this article deals with the problem of personal development of adolescents who are brought up in the conditions of paternal deprivation, on the example of the content aspects of the main components of their Self-concept. On the basis of the analysis of the actual data presented in modern studies, the trend of growth in the number of incomplete (maternal) families and the specifics of the development of children and adolescents from such families is stated. The author gives a general assessment of the degree of study of the problem of Self-concept in adolescence and shows its lack of development in relation to adolescents raised in conditions of paternal deprivation.

Materials and Methods: a comparative analysis of the features of the content aspects of the main structural components of the Self-concept of adolescents from full and maternal families, a total of 170 people was carried out. The content characteristics of the cognitive component of the Self-concept –Self-image and the manifestations of the emotional component – Self-rating, including the general self-acceptance of adolescents are studied.

Results: data of some specificity of the formation of Self-concept of adolescents who are brought up in the conditions of paternal deprivation were received. In particular, the study confirmed the hypothesis that paternal deprivation has a significant impact on the content of the adolescent’s Self-image, which is reflected in both quantitative and qualitative features of their Self-descriptions. In addition, the results of comparative analysis it was determined that the presence of adolescents who are brought up mothers to lower performance in most of the parameters of the Self-rating, except in the area of romantic relationships.

Discussion and Conclusions: in general, the results of the study allowed identifying the predominant Self-representation of adolescents from full and maternal families, as well as the nature of their Self-rating in the most important parameters for this age.

Introduction: the article is devoted to the problem of apophatic tradition formation in the history of ancient philosophy. The research focuses on the issue of the source of negativity in Neoplatonism, analyzes the teachings of Plotinus and Damascus. It is hypothesized that one of the grounds may be the doctrine of Democritus about two types of emptiness.

Materials and Methods: as the materials used in the article, it should be noted the translations from the ancient Greek language of the evidence, transmitting the teachings of the atomists, as well as the appeal to the authentic semantic units. The compositions of Plotinus and Damascus are analyzed on the basis of translated literature. Traditional methods of historical and philosophical research are used: hermeneutic, phenomenological, historical, comparative analysis.

Results:  the initial premise of the study is evidence of the teachings of the atomists, in which there are indications of the existence of not only one, but two kinds of emptiness. On the one hand, it is the hypothetical nature of this provision that is emphasized. On the other hand, it is said about the variability of interpretations of the analyzed evidence. The article shows that the principle of dualism of negativity is present in the teachings of Plotinus and Damascus. In the philosophy of Plotinus, the negativity is presented in the two opposite poles of the hierarchy in henology and in teaching on the matter. It is also shown that in complex apophatic constructions of Damascus it is said about two types of the One.

Discussions and conclusions: in conclusion, it is emphasized that it is difficult to find direct instructions in the texts of Plotinus and Damascus on the relationship of their concepts with the teaching of Democritus about the two types of emptiness, and that the conclusions available in the article are valid only in the context of the general logic of the formation of ancient apophaticism.

Introduction: the present paper aims to portray Lev Shaposhnikov, a Russian scholar, professor, doctor of philosophy as an advocator of the historico-philosophical approach. For this purpose it is essential to provide a holistic analysis of the personality of L. Shaposhnikov as well as his philosophical views in the synchronic and diachronic dimensions.  

Materials and Methods: Lev Shaposhnikov’s research papers devoted to the problems of the Russian religious philosophy as well as works of prominent Russian scholars of the XIX-XX centuries served as materials for the given study. The research methods employed included philosophical analysis, interpretation, comparison and generalization.

Results: as a result of the conducted research L. Shaposhnikov’ philosophical standpoint has been analysed, including description and evaluation of his academic, scholarly, and managerial activity in the philosophical realm.

Overall, it is clear that Prof. Shaposhnikov’s research is centred around a range of topics, such as: history of the religious philosophy and Orthodox theology; development and specific features of spiritual education in Russia. At present this thematic field is being widened due to investigations of philosophical and pedagogical views of Russian scholars of the ХIХ-ХХ centuries.

Lev Shaposhnikov's achievements concern not only profound academic enquiry, but also creation of a school of thought on the history of philosophy, involvement in educational activity, organization of large academic events (for example, Rozhdestvenskiye chteniya – an international conference held in Nizhny Novgorod for 30 years), participation in collective research of scholars from Russian leading universities (such as the Moscow State University and others). 

Discussion and Conclusion: within the framework of the present paper a scholarly discussion of famous philosophers from Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod) and Belorussia addressed to Prof. Shaposhnikov is presented. It helps comprehend his key ideas in their relation to the modern scientific context and the works of known Russian philosophers of the XIX-XX centuries.

Analysis of the historiosophy of Russian philosophers (such as V. Rosanov, N. Berdyaev, and others) is one of the foci in L. Shaposhnikov’s works. The author often uses an innovative approach to interpret the history of philosophy, yet his logic and vision provide reliability of the results obtained. Moreover, investigation of the Russian religious philosophy, in-depth analysis of the ideas of conservatism, research into the history of spiritual education in Russia represent important directions in L. Shaposhnikov’s scholarly work .

An obvious asset of L. Shaposhnikov’s works is systematization and classification of the philosophical issues as well as enriching the terminology base of philosophy. Thus it could be posited that research studies by L. Shaposhnikov are sure to have a valuable methodological potential.

In general, the authors of the given paper managed to portray Lev Shaposhnikov as a prominent modern scholar and reveal the role of his views in the history of the Russian philosophy.

Introduction: the relevance of the urban studies is determined by the role which this form of settlement plays at the present stage of development of civilization. The specificity of the change of the city since the modern era is the dynamism, multidirectional and diverse processes of urban life. Interdisciplinary studies emerging at the intersection of sociology, political science, anthropology, philosophy and economics are becoming prospective. On the one hand this article raises the problem of the influence of urban space on the life of society, and on the other hand, it analyses the requirements that residents of the city make to the way of the organization of their existence in the urban environment.

Materials and methods: the theory of biopower by M. Foucault and his followers is the main frame of analysis' of transformation of modern urban space. This method allows us to research not only the mechanism of micropower but also political strategies of people management. In terms of this concept, the main concept is the body: the human body, the collective social body and the body of the city. The theory is illustrated by examples of Russian and foreign cities and also by results of sociology research of “individual happiness” of citizens on the example of Nizhny Novgorod.

Results: there are the hypotheses about transformation of modern big city by project of power in the article. The goal of this project of power is optimization of people management that means achievement the maximum of safety and transparency of urban space. However, new architectural solutions are not always felt by citizens as comfortable and existentially safe. As a result, we have the tactics of resistance to power decisions from below. Russian reality is analyzed as specific one, but there is an assumption that large Russian cities tend to fit into the described way of development. The authors make an attempt to consider as one of the parties in the process of initiating changes the very matter of the city.

Discussion and conclusions: this research allows to describe the main trend in transformation of big cities in Russia and the world and to show the main points of “care” in transformation of city spaces. It also allows us to describe the whole complex of issues related to including a person in the collective social body of modern megapolis.

Introduction: the study of masculinity types in consumer culture is determined by the changes in perception of corporeality, attributes of masculine identity and creation of new universal male fashion images. Typologies of masculinity in gender studies deal with the ranking of men’s images and the emergence of individual strategies for the analysis of male behavior.

Materials and methods: the types of masculinity are analyzed from the point of view of the  system approach and philosophical-cultural analysis; the importance of marketing and visual cultural practices in emergence of new types of masculinity and their proliferation are studied; new trends in fashion industry of the second half of the 20th century, personal care, hobbies, and professional activities and their influence on gender norms are analyzed as causes of the social range of masculinity and its typologies.

Results of the study: the studies of twentieth-century fashion and consumption oriented masculinity types indicate an important cultural change in the perception of male and female topoi and in marketing strategies to promote products and services. Visually colored and transforming man’s image expands the boundaries of masculinity and becomes the basis for individualization of the male cultural image.

Discussion and conclusions: contemporary culture generates new types of masculinity, which is revealed in consumer fashion for individual (“male”) products, visual practices, interactions and subcultures that visualize new types of masculinity. Such changes in the perception of masculinity require further study and comprehension.