The article deals with the tendencies of development of the modern higher school in Russia, the legislative change of status of scientific and pedagogic staff training, the innovative changes connected with the new Federal education standards, multilevel continuous professional education.

The article deals with the pedagogic education as viewed by V.M. Bekhterev. The scientist regarded the continuous education as a sequence of stages of specially organized education and training in preschool educational institutions, schools, and later in universities. Being not only a theorist but also a practical worker in this sphere, V.M. Bekhterev created scientific and educational institutions where his progressive ideas were implemented.

In this paper, Thompson’s theory of organizations as open systems (1967), Epstein’s School-Community Partnership Model (1995), and Etzkowitz’s Triple Helix Model (2003) have been discussed and integrated into one model. It is proposed to explore this new combined model to better understand schools as open/close systems that collaborate with other organizations in a globalizing environment.

The article deals with the similarities and differences of essential and practice-oriented foundations of the knowledge model of education and the competence model of education. The notion of competence is regarded, first of all, as an integrated personal quality. Based on the comparison of sense, structural and contents parameters the authors show the contradictions in the interpretations of traditional components of the competence (to know, to be able to, to master).

The article deals with the process of methodological transformations in the modern domestic theory of education. Special attention is paid to their dependence on western philosophic and psychological doctrines. The tendencies of extrusion of education from the scientific discourse of post-non-classical pedagogy are described.

The article describes the route of continuous education in social work. The comparative analysis of the professional standard “Specialist in social work” and Federal state educational standard of higher education in “Social work”, the analysis of the results of the research of urgent demands of specialists in the Volgograd region determine the contents of additional education in social work and its organizational forms.

The article deals with the value guidelines of professional work of a teacher of fine arts. The classical and anthropologic interpretation of the contents of the discipline “Fine arts” is under consideration. The aesthetic world-view of pupils, its features and level model are described.

The article deals with the issue of future psychologists’ value guidelines, marks out their features. The results of the empiric research of future psychologists’ value guidelines are represented; the contents of the programme of future psychologists’ value guidelines development in the educational space of a pedagogical higher school are described.

The article shows the necessity of development of family values of school graduates as one of the factors of creating and preserving of human fund. The research carried out in some Volgograd schools revealed the insufficient level of teenager’s readiness for future family life, which allowed the conclusion about the necessity of school graduates’ family values development, accepting family cultural values.

The article deals with the process of speech culture formation of a future specialist in the educational sphere by means of the resources of higher school media space and the pedagogic principles that make this process the most efficient.

The article reveals the sequence of mastering the classical strategy of education in the system of postgraduate education. It is suggested to actualize the classical orientation of pedagogic work, and then to fix it in pedagogic projection of professional work.

The article reveals the features of social thinking of pedagogical higher school students. It represents the examples of competence-oriented tasks on development of social thinking of students who study pedagogical and psychological sciences.

The article proves the necessity of changes in quality evaluation in future teachers’ methodological training taking into consideration the opinions of teachers and students. One of the variants of methodological readiness is represented; it reflects the dynamics of changes in methodological organization of a lesson when students are involved into research work in the course of methodology studies at a higher school. The “Expert card of methodological training quality” is characterized;it is based on students’ actions while training, conducting and analyzing a lesson that reflect the ways to organize the common work.

The article deals with the monitoring of professional and communicative training of agrarian higher school students that gives the reliable and prompt information concerning the future agrarian specialist’s professional and communicative competence and allowing the corrections in didactic conditions of its formation.

Historically business schools have contributed to the profitability and sustainability of universities due to ongoing success. Recently, even business schools have experienced challenges as a result of financial pressures, budget cuts, increased competition, and changing student needs and expectations. For many years, the most popular graduate business degree was the Master of Business Administration (MBA), and while its name recognition and prestige continues to hold, there is a growing need for specialized business master’s degree programs in management and leadership. Specialized master’s degrees in management and leadership bring value to individuals through career development, and students who participate in these programs have a positive impact on the organizations where they are employed. When business schools strategically choose a value creation approach rather than a value appropriation strategy, greater opportunities for individual learning and organizational learning emerge. As students, their employers, university faculty, and program administrators interact, communicative patterns of relating create synergies that bring advantages to the entire learning community including primary and secondary stakeholders. Specialized business master’s degree programs hold great potential to change the way business schools innovate and provide value to the greater community.

The article shades light on the importance of distance education, as it is practiced both in the developing and developed countries all over the world. After independence, the Ministry of Education of the State Eritrea, faced with an acute shortage of teachers, both in terms of quality and quantity. And hence, Open Distance Learning Program (ODLP) was launched to upgrade the under-qualified elementary and middle school teachers.

The article deals with the history of ethnolinguistic research in the region, the work of the Russian language department of the Volgograd State Socio-Pedagogical Institute (University) in gathering and classification of dialectal material. The contribution to the establishment and development of the Volgograd ethnolinguistic school by L.M. Orlov, R.I. Kudryashova and other researchers is determined.

The article deals with connotation in the aspect of discourse study. Special attention is paid to the connotative meaning of a word from the view of an addressee and an addresser. The information sent from a sender to a receiver is transmitted through denotative and connotative channels; correct coding / decoding of connotative information requires some particular knowledge.

The article deals with the structural, lexical, grammar and syntactic characteristics of the English electronic lexicographic hypertext Wikipedia. It reveals the average volume of information units, the quantity of inner and outer hypertext references. The theoretical foundations of the research are proved by the examples from Wikipedia texts.

The article deals with the basic types of macrosituations based on semantically complex sentences with secondary predicative structures in the modern English language. A macrosituation as an element of the objective reality unites several events. The analysis of the situations is carried out from the objective reality to proposition, and from it to a sentence.

The article deals with the semiosis of the ichthyosphere as one of the most important resources of humankind. It shows the image signs that denote human vital activity in the two linguistic cultures (English and Russian), semiotics of phraseological units, proverbs and sayings of the English and Russian ethnos. The image parameters of actualization of the aquatic world in the human world by means of secondary nomination (semiotization) are determined in the article.

The article compares the modern views on argumentation in interpersonal discussion from the point of its efficiency. The rhetoric analysis of the fragments from the works of the English classical and modern fiction literature allows making the conclusion that the efficiency / non-efficiency of communication is revealed over the limits of discussions. Emotional arguments are the means to achieve speaker’s goal.

The article deals with the views of scientists on paradigmatic relations of onyms. It describes synonymy, antonymy and homonymy of geortonyms in the Czech and Russian linguistic cultures.

The article describes meliorative vocabulary in the modern German language. It is stated that one of the ways to form German melioratives denoting a man is metaphoric transfer. The most efficient ones are metaphoric transfers based on comparison of men with animals and mythology characters.

The article deals with the issue of national and cultural features of paremiological and phraseological units with the component “animal” in the Kalmyk and English languages. It reveals some semantic similarities despite various use of the images of animals in paremies and phraseological units; their quantity with the negative assessment is larger than with the positive one. The syntactic analysis shows that the paremies with the compound structure are the most characteristic type for the both languages.

The article deals with the genre of literary prayer in the context of the lyrics by A. Grigoriev. It represents the comparative analysis of poetic texts with canonical samples of the Orthodox hymnography. The aesthetic and axiological guidelines of the poet are based on the motive and image dominant.

The article characterizes the system of artistic devices to represent the literary environment in the novel by M. Bulgakov, shows the urgency to study the theme of literary existence in the domestic prose of the XX century. The analysis of the novel reveals the similarity with the texts of the medieval bestiaries, folklore theatre traditions, as well as some mythologemes based on the methods of reducing in creating the images of writers’ characters.

The article reveals the iconic motives in the modern poetry of the spiritual tradition, describes their functioning features.

Based on the novel “The Judgement” by an Austrian writer of the XX century Franz Kafka, the article reveals and describes with the key concepts. They are cruelty , accusation , sympathy and care . These concepts in the novel are not denoted by the corresponding lexemes but expressed by other linguistic devices. Frequent explication of the concepts is specific in the author’s individual style. The symbols characterizing the novel’s characters are determined; they are a wall, a closed window, a blanket, a backroom.

The turn of the XII - XIII centuries is the period of intensive changes in Languedoc basically made by the initiative and under the control of the Toulouse earls and determining the features of social and political structures of the region. The fundamental differences between the North and the South were formed at that period, which influenced the process of creating a united centralized state in France.

The article represents the historiographic review of the social and cultural organizations in the towns of the Dagestan region in the second half of the XIX - beginning of the XX centuries in the works by domestic researchers.

The article deals with the fields of activities of the basic Polish political parties in the period of elections to Sejm in the autumn of 1930 as the attempt to counteract the authoritarian strivings of sanacja. The research is based on some unpublished materials of the Polish archives, press and the VIP information agency.

The article deals with the institutions and organizations that hosted the evented aimed at popularization of the scientific and technical achievements. The mechanism of propaganda is described. It is noted that depending on the audience, its cultural and professional level the methods of giving information was chosen.

The article deals with the historical experience of propaganda of the basic forms of agrotechnical educational of rural workers developed in the 1950-1960s. It is proved that agropropaganda was an essential addition and continued the system of staff training in the sphere of mass professions and specialists in agriculture. It is noted that it favoured further development of their knowledge, improved the qualification and cultural and technical level.