Keyword: «sphere»

The article is devoted to the possibilities of organizing educational work in the context of the spheral approach. Genesis of the approach in question and its development in different branches of science is revealed. It is shown that a sphere is a special communication environment, which leads to developing students’ experience in interaction and communication. The conclusion is drawn that the key peculiarity of the spheral approach is the perception of pedagogical phenomena being self-sufficient and rather independent.

Human capital is becoming increasingly important for the individual, employers, society and the state in the modern world. In this connection, domestic secondary vocational pedagogical education is given an important role in its development which requires comprehension of sources for renewal of its determination as a sphere of human capital development. The purpose of the study is to identify and classify the factors, patterns and potential for determination renewal of secondary vocational pedagogical education as a sphere of human capital development. It has been conducted on the basis of anthropological approach with the use of methods of analysis, synthesis, comparison, classification, observation, survey, and expert evaluation. The institutions of secondary vocational pedagogical education of the Kemerovo region and other regions as well as their social partners in the development of human capital served as an experimental basis for the study. It involved 8205 respondents. As a result, the state and degree of the knowledge about examined problems have been found; the evolution of determination of domestic secondary vocational pedagogical education in relation to the stages of its genesis, other circumstances and factors has been analyzed; the essential characteristics of "student's human capital" have been revealed from pedagogical positions; the potential of this type of education, capable to provide the development of student's human capital has been identified. Scientific novelty of the results consists in the fact that for the first time determination of secondary vocational pedagogical education as a sphere of human capital development became a subject of scientific research; for the first time the factors, patterns and potential that cause such determination in the context of pedagogical concept of "human capital of a student" were identified. Their theoretical significance lies in their contribution to the theory of secondary vocational pedagogical education as the knowledge about this phenomenon. And practically they can serve as a theoretical basis for designing innovative socio-pedagogical systems and technologies of student's human capital development, for modernization of socio-pedagogical activity in domestic system of secondary vocational education, in the system of professional development and retraining of professional and pedagogical personnel, for improvement of this type of education development management in the Russian Federation regions.