The article deals with the issues of design of the modern educational process by means of the interactive learning tools. Interactive learning tools are regarded as the instrument for the implementation of student-centered learning and effective formation of students’ metadisciplinary educational outcomes. The authors analyze the specific issues of designing a lesson by means of the interactive learning tools into the existing educational practice. The technological and methodological aspects of using the resources are described by the example of physics lessons.

С позиций ситуационно-средового подхода анализируется сущность личностно развивающего потенциала электронного обучения. Электронное обучение интерпретируется как образовательная среда, а развитие личности - как накопление субъектного опыта в ходе ситуационного взаимодействия с этой средой. Описаны четыре типа ситуаций развития личности, их личностно развивающий потенциал, педагогические риски и специфика педагогической поддержки.

The article deals with the issue of formation of the image of a social worker. Professionally significant qualities of the personality of a social worker are caused by the determinants of its formation. Communication skills, tolerance, empathy, professional ethics are highlighted as the dominant professional qualities. The article represents the results of the pedagogical experiment of the formation of these properties, their connection with the formation of the image of a social worker.

The article represents the author’s view on the main aspects of the regulations of the organization of primary education of students with disabilities and mental retardation, which will help to formulate the mission of educational organizations in relation to children with special educational needs and to describe the general approaches to the implementation of the adopted mission taking into consideration the specific functions of a particular school. The authors give the interpretation of the personal and metadisciplinary outcomes of the inclusive education in primary school.

The article deals with the principles and functions of extracurricular activities in foreign language in higher school in the process of sociocultural competence development. The basic characteristics of sociocultural competence are described. The authors develop the algorithm of organizing and conducting extracurricular work, find out the features of extracurricular foreign language activities that contribute to the process of formation of the sociocultural competence of students of pedagogical higher schools.

The article represents the theoretical grounds for the model of the formation process of the intercultural communicative competence of students. The author describes the main stages of the model (conceptual, value-oriented, resultative and evaluative) that allow the formation of the intercultural communicative competence at each stage in the process of vocational training in accordance with the new educational standards.

The article deals with the relevance of professionally oriented (linguodidactic) tasks as an objective method to determine the level of formation of the linguodidactic competence of future foreign language teachers. Based on one of these tasks, the article illustrates the interpretation of the levels of formation of the linguodidactic competence, determines their compliance with the components of the competence.

The article represents the results of the research conducted by the employees of the scientific centre “Health” (the physiological aspect) and the scientific research centre for gender research (pedagogical aspect) of the Volgograd State Socio-Pedagogical University concerning the effectiveness of the reproductive culture of students that contribute to improving the state of the reproductive health of young people.

The article represents the author’s technology of formation of the gender competence of a future teacher as the most important component of the professional competence. In contrast to the previously known techniques describing the basic forms of activity of students, the stages of competence formation, the proposed technology is based on the educational modules (independent units of the educational programmes), allowing to consider the features of the individual development that ensure the mastery of the general cultural, general professional and professional competences.

The article deals with the features of the gender approach in the process of music education in elementary, secondary and high school. The tools and musical repertoire for each gender group are described in the article.

The article substantiates the pedagogical conditions for formation of the gender culture of younger school students in choreography classes at school.

The article represents the model of formation of the legal consciousness of high school students in project activities based on the personality, activity and axiological approaches. Each stage of the model corresponds to a particular stage of social planning, which is the main pedagogical means of formation of consciousness of high school students. The authors give a detailed description of the method of working with high school students at each stage of the process of developing their legal consciousness.

The article deals with the potential of the innovative health care technologies in secondary school that contribute to the formation of healthy generation, instilling love for active lifestyle by the example of the sports program “Young tourists”.

The article deals with the issue of formation of the ecological culture of younger schoolchildren in a secondary school, describes the essence and contents of the concept “ecological culture”, highlights the components and means of formation of the ecological culture in school.

The article deals with potential of the dialogic technology as a part of the heuristic teaching method when studying the theme “Christianization of Rus” with 10-12 year-old students. Special role is given to the work with different types of sources as well as the process of organizing the discussions in small groups.

The article deals with the cognitive structures that are the basis for the prototype semantics of the key lexemes in predictive and poetic alliterative texts. The author studies the paradigmatic and syntagmatic key lexemes, finds out similar directions of conceptualization of the structures of the parascientific and artistic knowledge based on the events and the body basis of a person.

The article deals with the hydronyms of the Kalmyk origin functioning on the territory of the South of Russia (Astrakhan, Volgograd, Rostov regions and Stavropol Krai), regions bordering with the Republic of Kalmykia. The authors carry out the lexical, semantic and derivational analysis of the Kalmyk names of water bodies (lakes, rivers and ravines), which are caused by settlement and development of the Kalmyk steppe of the Ural-Volga interfluve.

The article deals with the linguocultural type “Disney princess” in the American linguistic culture. The author analyzes its modification in the period from the first appearance on the screen (1937) until the present moment. The evolution of the type “Disney princess” is considered in connection with the changes happening in the social, political and other roles of women in the American society.

The article deals with the concept of “global English”, the spheres of its use, describes its features on the example of the Nobel lectures delivered in English by native speakers. The author makes the conclusions about the pragmalinguistic characteristics of the global English in scientific public speech at the level of phonetics, vocabulary and syntax.

The article represents the review of the classifications of neologisms. It deals with the ways of formation of neologisms in the sublanguage of computer and information technologies. The research is based on the modern online dictionaries of acronyms and abbreviations. The author suggests the classification of neologisms of the sublanguage of computer technologies.

The article deals with the features of the derivation (structural and semantic) processes that underlie the derivation of prepositions and conjunctions, and describes cognitive models of secondary nominations underlying the derivation of prepositions and conjunctions in modern English. The process of internal and external interaction of prepositions and conjunctions is under consideration.

The article deals with the German phraseological units with the semantics of the social hierarchy recorded in the Duden dictionary. The author identifies some stylistically marked phraseological units in this thematic area. A significant number of phraseological units with the semantics of the social hierarchy with the inner form are found out.

Based on the differentiated approach to the reading audience of the second half of the XIX century, the article deals with the phenomenon of the bursa’s prose. The perception of “Bursa’s Essays” by N.G. Pomyalovsky is included in the context of non-fiction literature. The issue of the actual authenticity of the fiction text is considered in the process of “dialogue” with literary criticism, concepts of literary and religious figures, and in the light of the memoirs of D.N. Mamin-Sibiryak.

The article represents an attempt to characterize the conceptual field “the sacred” from the point of interaction between three closely related linguistic sciences (linguoconceptology, discoursology and language world picture studies). The author researches the aspects of the conceptual field “the sacred” implemented in the fairy-tale discourse and leading to the conclusion about the supporting role of the conceptual field “the sacred” in the fairy-tale discourse.

The article deals with the experience of conceptualization of the speech act “oath” by Russian native speakers based on proverbs. The author describes the value component of oath as a cultural concept.

The article deals with the symbolic imagery in the late “sea” novel by J.F. Cooper “Wing-and-Wing, or Le Feu-Follet” that express the writer’s Christian worldview. The focus is on the images of the ship (symbolizing the life journey of the character), the sea (a symbol of Divine Will) and the image of the star heralding the salvation. Some other features of the refraction of the religious themes in the novel are under consideration.

The article deals with the concepts of “fear” and “guilt” related to the key concepts of the novel by German and Swiss writer Hermann Hesse “Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair’s Youth”. Frequent use of nominants and explicants of these concepts is conditioned by the author’s communicative intention - to show the difficult path of human socialization in childhood and adolescence.

The article deals with the early phase of activities of the Constant Commission on affairs of consumer societies as the centre for promotion of consumer cooperatives. The Commission members are under consideration. The author characterizes the main directions of its work oriented at interaction with consumer societies and providing them with the instructor’s assistance in organizing their activities.

The previously unpublished sources allowed us to reconstruct the history of the Kizlyar Holy Cross monastery, the first men’s monastery in the North Caucasus. The article deals with a difficult way of formation of the monastic way of life and economic development of the monastery in the conditions of multi-confessional environment and the Caucasian war.

Based on the regional historiographic experience and the new factual material, the article represents an attempt to highlight the main aspects of the development of one of the most important components of the cultural life of the people in North Caucasus Autonomous republics - the artistic culture - in the conditions of the multinational region in the period of postwar recovery and development of the national economy.

The article represents Russian and foreign research results regarding clothing of Japanese prisoners of war in the camps in the territory of the USSR (1945-1956). The author represents a historiographical analysis of the works of historians from Russia and a number of researchers from Ukraine, Switzerland and Japan, published in 1994-2017, which cover the issues of clothing of Japanese prisoners of war in the Soviet Union.

The article deals with the ideas of a famous English thinker John Locke, describes the relationship between the legislation of the end of XVII - early XVIII century that formed a system of constitutional monarchy in England, and the political concept of John Locke.

The article deals with the activities of the Minister of war L. Worthington-Evans and his influence on the development of the British armoured forces in the interwar period. The work is based on the archival materials of the National archives of Great Britain and the transcripts of proceedings of the British Parliament.