№ 03 (March)

The relevance of the problem under study is determined by the fact that in the light of current trends over the past decades in the training of engineering personnel, the pretentious gaps between the need to meet the modern requirements of employers and society and the need for professional self-realization of engineers, which is determined by their ability to work in difficult conditions with insufficient resources, as well as by creative ideas, the ability to make non-standard and effective decisions, using the means of both native and foreign languages. The aim of the study is to present the didactic aspect of the implementation of creatively-oriented teaching model of oral professional communication to engineering students in practical foreign Language classes. Using the method of theoretical analysis, the blocks of the model of creatively-oriented teaching of oral professional communication to engineering students in practical foreign language classes were determined. Particular attention is paid to the presentation of key information about the most universal and effective methods, creativity techniques and artificial intelligence tools through the prism of teaching oral professional communication to engineering students in practical classes in the discipline “Foreign Language”. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that a model of creatively oriented teaching of oral professional communication to engineering students in practical foreign language classes has been proposed and implemented using technology for developing the creative potential of engineering students by means of artificial intelligence tools in the context of university education. A set of pedagogical conditions is considered that can contribute to the development of the creative potential of engineering students trained with artificial intelligence tools (a focus is on mastering a range of special techniques ranked by level of complexity, techniques for developing critical, radiant, creative thinking for solving professional problems; student’s ability to gain a resourceful condition; ability to transform a problem into tasks; ability to convey information to the querent, etc.). A model of creatively-oriented teaching of oral professional communication to engineering students during practical classes in the discipline “Foreign Language” is presented.

Federal state educational standards of higher military education of a new generation concerning most specialties prescribe the necessity for students to develop a universal competence "communication" (UC-4). It means the ability to use modern communicative technologies with the help of foreign languages for academic and professional interaction. Besides the importance of foreign languages proficiency in modern information society is generally recognized. Most researchers in the field of teaching foreign languages distinguish foreign-language professional and communicative competence as the main reference point for language training of specialists in various areas of higher education, where the professional component of the competence is considered from the point of view of the use of a foreign language in professional activities. The military sphere in the context of the fundamentalization of language training of non-linguistic specialists have not been fully investigated. The aim of the work is to consider foreign language communicative military-professional competence as the main goal of teaching foreign languages in a higher military school, determine its structure, analyze its components, and highlight ways to assess the level of competence components development. Research methods are theoretical analysis of literature and regulations, extrapolation of pedagogical experience, generalization and systematization of data. Sub-competences and their components that are part of foreign-language communicative military-professional competence are highlighted: linguistic (language and speech components), socio-cultural (background and intercultural components), pragmatic (strategic and compensatory components), information (information-receptive and information-productive components), self-educational (organizational and developmental components), military-professional (terminological, discursive and operational components). Examples of tasks for monitoring the level of competence components formation are given, such as lexical-grammatical and cultural tests, expert assessment, communicative tasks, information search, self-analysis, projects, etc. The significance of the study is in the fact that the theoretical basis for studying the main competence within the framework of the "foreign language" discipline in the higher military school is constructed. It makes it possible to improve the methodological system for monitoring the dynamics of the development of foreign language communicative military-professional competence among students of the higher military school. Research perspectives involve scaling criteria and defining descriptors of competence components assessment to create an up-to-date fund of assessment materials.

The relevance of the article content is associated with the need to expand the understanding of the advantages and problems of personalized learning. The goal is to show the relationship between personalized learning and the corresponding assessment of results in order to provide students with step-by-step monitoring of achievements including the adaptive assessment method. The existing practice of contact training, with all its advantages, cannot always provide high quality training for all students and take into account personal preferences. Therefore, personalized learning is attracting more and more attention in educational practice, which is actively developing in the era of digitalization and is influencing changes in approaches to learning, emphasizing the student-centered character and determining the search for new methods for assessing results. The article examines the historical origins of personalized learning and describes the factors that currently determine the personalization of educational activities. One of the advantages of this method is the freedom to choose topics and content of the material being studied, pace and conditions of learning. Taking into account the greater independence of students in the context of such training, the need to provide operational information about the level and quality of learning achievements is becoming more urgent for a prompt response to results, increasing learning motivation and developing self-assessment skills. The scientific novelty in the content of the article is due to a comprehensive consideration of a personalized approach to both learning and evaluating its results. The solution to this problem lies in the use of the theory and practice of pedagogical measurements and adaptive assessment methods, which are based on specialized software and tools. These tools ensure the selection of appropriate tasks according to the level of preparation of the students, and they can produce assessment results quickly and accurately. The complexity of designing these systems is shown to be due not only to technical and technological reasons, but also to the specific design of control and evaluation materials that provide for a comprehensive assessment of knowledge and competences. The theoretical significance of the article is due to the substantiation of the combination of learning processes and adaptive assessment with a personalized approach. In practical terms, to improve the effectiveness of this approach, developers can use an algorithm for co-designing learning and assessment materials.

It is well-known that studying at a university is the first step in the professional identity development. Unfortunately, not all applicants enter higher education institutions guided by their own beliefs, desires and hopes at the moment. Students are often guided by their parents’ advice or wishes in choosing a university and a future profession. As a result, we can see that students begin to experience difficulties with professional self-determination. They cannot independently work out their career plans and do not see prospects for the successful development of their future professional career. As a result, this situation can lead to voluntary expulsion of a student from a higher educational institution. The authors of the study tried to find out how to help students at a higher educational institution create a career path based on portfolio for their future work and give them an active role in this project. The authors of the paper developed a scenario for a professional portfolio and implemented it into practice in order to increase the future graduates’ chances for their successful professional career. We consider the portfolio as a process, product and tool that promotes reflexivity, personal assessment and self-presentation. It has the properties of self-assessment, self-focus and self-preparation, which are very useful within the curriculum. The portfolio contributes to building the professional identity during the studies and allows students to implement mechanisms that will operate later when graduates integrate into the labor market. The theoretical significance of the research is in consideration of the student's portfolio as a reflexive analysis of future professional activity. In practice, this study ensures career guidance, as reflexivity is involved in building professional identity. The scenario of the professional portfolio was developed and applied in practice in Samara State University of Economics in 2022-2023.

The relevance of our research lies in the need to conceptualize the creative environment of the city as a special place of emergence of new educational practices in the body of the city. The aim of the research was to philosophically conceptualize the creative urban space as a structural element of the educational environment of the city. The research is based on qualitative methods. Thesaurus approach and hermeneutic analysis were used as the main methods. The methodological bases of the work were: the tenets of the philosophical direction of invironmentalism and the environmental approach, the social paradigm of space and the paradigm of information and communication space, the provisions of social-topological theory. The article presents the results of socio-philosophical analysis of the creative space issue as an educational locus of the city through the concept of "rhizome" and the introduction of the term "rhizomatic educational space". The author considers rhizome as a radical alternative to static and closed systems of educational practices with rigid axial orientation existing in urban space. The article identifies and describes the main principles of rhizome manifestation in the educational practices of the city, recognized on the basis of the analysis of creative environment: the principle of heterogeneity and connectivity; the principle of multiplicity; the principle of rupture; the cartographic principle. The article considers the concepts of deterritorialization and reterritorialization, describing the capacity of rhizome for constant change from the position of educational environment description. The article presents the results of a comparative analysis of genealogical and rhizomatic approaches to the organization of the educational process, highlighting and describing the advantages of the latter. Scientific novelty of the work consists in the following: the term "rhizomatic educational space" is considered in detail from the point of view of socio-cultural phenomenon; the reasons for the emergence and components of rhizomatic educational space, on the basis of which the presented phenomenon functions, are identified; the regularities effect of cultural and educational potential of the city on the socialization and improvement of the cultural level of the individual are outlined.

The Decree of the President of the Russian Federation "On National Goals and Strategic Objectives for the Development of the Russian Federation" sets out the task of ensuring the competitive ability of Russian education on a global scale and placing the Russian Federation among the 10 leading countries in the world in terms of the general education quality. In addition, it is required to increase its accessibility to citizens using the achievements of innovative economic development. The realities of today dictate the need to search for new technologies and ways to achieve the set goals. Modernization processes in any area of human life are aimed at improving the current situation by abandoning old stereotypes and transition to new forms of work. Modern geopolitical circumstances imply the need to update the modern education system towards its total digitalization. Digitalization of education should be considered as a tool for expanding the learning environment, choosing an individual educational trajectory, and building personal learning scenario. The purpose of this study was to examine the possibility of using forms of distributed education in career guidance work with schoolchildren within the framework of the project "Arctic Teacher in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)". It describes the experience of Yakutsk Pedagogical College in using digital educational resources as an opportunity to work with schoolchildren from hard-to-reach Arctic and Northern settlements of the Republic. It concerns the creation of pedagogical classes at colleges (Yakutsk, Namsky, Vilyuysky) to promote the development of the project "Arctic Teacher" and raise the prestige of the pedagogical profession among young people. The article also highlights the activities of the Small Pedagogical Academy for schoolchildren, where various events and competitions are organized. Intermediate results show that graduates of the Small Pedagogical Academy demonstrate professional determination, successfully go through the adaptation period of training in college, use educational platforms, display leadership characteristics.

The application of Stephen Krashen's theory of comprehensible input in the design of short-term courses of a foreign language for special purposes has become especially relevant due to the insufficient number of foreign language classroom hours in many non-linguistic universities. The aim of the study is to develop a model of organizing the process of learning a foreign language for special purposes in a non-linguistic university, based on a natural method of learning using comprehensible materials. Such a model could serve as an effective alternative to the traditional Soviet one, which has been largely preserved by many universities and does not correspond to the modern conditions and is primarily focused on acquiring certain skills. The author proposes a longitudinal and intermittent acquisition of a foreign language within a series of specialized courses following the study of relevant material in the native language within major disciplines. It is argued that learning the language of professional communication intermittently in senior years has several advantages over the traditional approach, because the teacher can rely on students' background ideas about future professional agency, knowledge of many international terms in their native language and higher professional motivation. The texts, corresponding in their content to the topics already covered in the native language, have all the necessary prerequisites of comprehensible input, because their logic and many concepts are a priori known to the students and they are of strictly professional interest. Stephen Krashen's approach, with its emphasis on the acquisition of the language information rather than on active speech activity or theoretical study of language norms, makes it possible to effectively introduce professional terminology to the students within a narrow timeframe. The results of the study, which require further testing, can be subsequently used to reform the process of learning a foreign language for special purposes in a non-linguistic university to meet the challenges facing the modern higher education in the context, when the goals and objectives of learning a foreign language remain unchanged and the classroom hours are often reduced. However, the implementation of this model is impossible without information support of a foreign language teacher by major disciplines specialists and the whole professional community of the university.

Modernization of higher education opens up new prospects for the use of electronic resources to improve the quality of training for choreographers. The use of multimedia services (Power Point, Piktochart, AhaSlides, Google presentations, etc.) satisfies both the requirements for training programs for specialists involved in choreographing and the requirements for the level of development of skills that form the basis of personal emotional intelligence. The authors explore the issue of justifying the effectiveness of including digital storytelling in choreographic education. The aim of the study is to examine the potential of using multimedia stories in training choreographers to develop their emotional intelligence. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that the didactic potential of using multimedia storytelling in training choreography specialists for the development of emotional intelligence is validated. Theoretical significance: the identified didactic opportunities are supported by communication in the intercultural educational environment to ensure a favorable, emotionally comfortable climate in the dance group. Multimedia service – MS Power Point. 62 students of the Orel State Institute of Culture were involved. Area of training: 52.03.01 – Choreographic art (bachelor’s degree level). The χ2-Pearson test was used for statistical processing of data. The level of emotional intelligence was assessed based on materials from K. Barchard’s questionnaire. Multimedia storytelling is considered as an innovative narrative practice, which is based on the creation of emotional stories using digital technology. The system of work for creating multimedia stories is described: studying the digital service and its capabilities; concept development; collection and analysis of information; creation of history and its implementation in digital format; presentation and subsequent application in practice. A special feature of the program is the adaptation of its content to the specifics of the training area. The authors conclude that the use of multimedia stories contributes to the development of emotional intelligence due to the social nature of the activity, multi-layered and non-linear treatment, multimodality, and provision of emotionally comfortable atmosphere. Some difficulties are also noted: low initial level of digital skills; different motivation; specialization in dance. The results obtained can be used to update choreographer training programs, advanced training courses, and the content of webinars on choreographic education.

In accordance with the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standards of Higher Education, educational organizations face the task of introducing effective tools for systemic cognition of the world and critical analysis of objective reality, solving complex problematic tasks by future specialists. Research in the field of the formation of processes and the development of information and mathematical competence can help in solving the task. The aim of the study is a model representation of information and mathematical competence and the process of its formation among undergraduate students, as well as an illustration of some elements of the methodology for the formation and evaluation of such competence with the involvement of a regional component. The processes of both mathematical and information competence formation in the system of basic, secondary general and higher education in the context of integration with other competences of university students are clarified by the method of theoretical analysis. The need to adjust the structure, content and model for the formation of information and mathematical competence in the context of the digital transformation of society as a whole is determined. The information and mathematical competence of a bachelor is evaluated through a set of competences, its structural components are considered from the point of view of an activity-based approach. Thus, the data obtained will be the basis for the design of the model. Building methodology for the formation of information and mathematical competence on the ground of competence-based, practice-oriented and personal approaches integration, a regional component is introduced into the content of competence-oriented tasks, when the problem situation presented in the task is not only characteristic of the student's daily academic and extracurricular life, but also reflects the peculiarities of the region (cultural, historical, socio-economic, environmental, natural, etc.). An assessment of the effectiveness of group work with the author's case task including a regional component was carried out by means of a pedagogical experiment for a comprehensive and differentiated assessment of the level of formation of the IMC. Illustrating the elements of the experimental methodology, we conclude that further research in the field of information and mathematical competence formation is promising.

The relevance of the research topic is determined by the growing need for the digital transformation of modern education, since it is this condition that makes it possible to effectively develop professional skills in students, including learning foreign languages. Digital technologies are an undeniable assistant in the process of developing communicative abilities, enriching intercultural experience and ensuring easy adaptation of students to new language environment. The aim of the study is to analyze the prospects for using immersive technologies in teaching foreign languages to students of engineering universities. The authors provide a comparative analysis of existing approaches to defining the concept of “immersive technologies”, their classification and didactic potential based on the world experience. The main components of an immersive educational environment and its advantages are presented. The use of immersive technologies in teaching foreign languages is justified. A range of problems related to the implementation of immersive technologies in the teaching practice of Russian universities has been identified. It is concluded that it is necessary to develop methodological support for the successful implementation of immersive technologies in the educational process. The method of surveying teachers of the Department of Foreign Languages helped find out their attitude towards immersive technologies. The theoretical significance of the article is in the detailed development of the main tenets of the immersive approach in education, which, without a doubt, contributes to expanding the knowledge of the teaching community in the field of digital methodology. The practical significance is associated with the prospects of using these technologies in the educational process of universities and the possibility of applying research results to create methodological support for disciplines, including foreign languages. It is in this direction that the team of authors plans to continue their work. The results of the research may be interesting for a wide range of scholars and teachers of foreign languages and can be used when giving courses on topical issues of applied linguistics, as well as methods of teaching foreign languages.

The relevance of the study is due to a certain decline in the prestige of the lecture as an organizational form of learning in higher education in the last decade and the need to find new, more effective forms of teaching today’s generation of students. Despite the presence of a fairly large layer of research that concerns the problem of the lecture in the domestic and foreign scientific literature, most of them are practice-oriented and do not contain any theoretical analysis of the proposed solutions. Therefore, in accordance with the purpose of the study – the methodological justification of the lecture, which has a modular-discrete structure and uses various interactive and digital technologies, the analysis of pedagogical research on the problem under consideration was carried out, the main disadvantages of the traditional lecture were identified and ways to improve its efficiency were outlined by means of interactive teaching methods and digital technologies. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the substantiation of the methodology for using interactive discrete lectures in higher education, which are created on personality-centered, competence-based and system-structural approaches. The capabilities of this type of lecture are demonstrated in activating the cognitive activity of students, their intellectual and professional development. The theoretical significance lies in the development of the concept of “interactive discrete lecture” and the description of its structural and methodical differences from a traditional type of lecture. In addition, the main theoretical directions for studying lectures in scientific and pedagogical literature were identified, varying in the specific choice of the subject of research. Basing on the principles of historical and personality-centered approaches, it became possible to single out the stages of development of a lecture in the educational process, followed by the use of various technical means and digital technologies, as well as changes in the role of teachers in its implementation and the position of students in the perception of the material. An empirical study conducted during professional development course for university teachers, during which they had the opportunity to listen to different lectures in content and structure – convincingly proved that modern teachers are acutely aware of the need to change the methodology of delivering lectures, but they do not possess theoretical knowledge and methodological recommendations yet.

The current situation in the world has led teachers to the idea that students should understand that their future professional work in their native country is the key to its prosperity and, as a result, their own life success. Therefore, it is necessary to organize the learning process in such a way that young people understand the purpose and meaning of patriotism. This is the relevance of this work. The aim of the study was to select interesting language material that could be used in the process of teaching language disciplines; to work out assignments based on it aimed at developing the creative potential of students. The main empirical method was observation during the pedagogical process, the statistical method was registration. The first stage of the research work was a search for material that was interesting from the point of view of students, on the basis of which a system of exercises was created during the second stage. The students collected texts that talked about the feeling of love for the Motherland, pride in our country, that is, all that they associate with the concept of patriotism. Based on this, a system of exercises was created and tested in practical classes aimed at developing the linguistic creativity of engineering university students. The texts used in the learning process were revised and replaced with patriotic ones proposed by students. The analysis of student papers has shown that linguistic creativity can and should be formed with the help of a material with patriotic content. Linguistic creativity often manifests itself in the ability to take a fresh look at known linguistic material. But in our case, after immersion into studied material, the students look at the current situation in the world in a different way. As a result of the study, it was concluded that the proposed assignments of patriotic content contributed to the development of linguistic competence among students. The practical significance of the research lies in the fact that the proposed assignments can be used not only in teaching the disciplines "Russian language and business communications", "Russian language and culture of speech", but also in studying the "Stylistics of the Russian language", supplementing similar material for working with different topics.

The relevance of the study is due to the need of analysis of value orientations of various groups of student youth, the results of which can later be used to develop scientific and methodological recommendations of a psychological and pedagogical nature and improve educational work in higher educational institutions. The purpose of this work is to analyze value orientations of students studying at higher educational institutions of St. Petersburg in the area of training “Jurisprudence” of various profiles. The study revealed that the most significant values for respondents are “Self-Direction”, “Hedonism”, “Achievement” and “Benevolence”. Statistically significant differences between groups of male and female students were recorded at the level of normative ideals for the value “Universalism”, at the level of individual priorities for the values “Universalism” and “Tradition”.

The environmental problem of waste management today is an urgent task for sustainable development in all countries of the world. In this context, responsible production and consumption become one of the main goals of sustainable development. The circular economy model is increasingly recognized as the only solution to the critical situation of natural resource shortage and environmental pollution. Germany, as a developed European country, plays a significant role in international relations. Its successful experience in implementing circular economy principles at the national and federal levels can be useful for the members of the European Union and other countries. The aim of the study is to assess the degree of circular economy implementation in Germany. In the course of the work, the author makes an analysis of the current German legislation on the circular economy; examines the stages of formation, principles of operation and results of development of the waste processing and disposal industry; presents the main indicators of the circular economy implementation. Recommendations for improving Russian legislation taking into account German experience are formulated.