Oksana Mishyk

The article is devoted to a comparative analysis of the effectiveness of innovative educational technologies used in the educational process of modern higher education. These include a round table, case studies and a web quest. The authors present the data of a conducted sociological inquiry illustrating the attitude of teachers and students to these methods.

The article is devoted to the comparative analysis of humanism phenomena and consumer civilization against the background of contemporary global problems comprehension. The core of the research interest is the evolution of humanistic ideas and principles in European philosophy from the Renaissance to existentialism, as well as their transformation under the conditions of the modern social and cultural situation. The authors of the article demonstrate a multidisciplinary approach to the problem under study, using for its solution methods of philosophical, linguo-cognitive and sociological analysis.

The paper is devoted to the speculations on the place and role of humanitarian subjects in the structure of economic education in Russia today. The authors of the article give consideration to the purpose and the specific character of building a set of common cultural competences of future economists with the help of humanitarian subjects. The data of the social research are given which allow to analyze the attitude of the students of Universities of Economics to humanities.

The paper is devoted to a problem of Russian art business development. The paper shows the main differences between the art market and other segments of the market. The applicability of standard marketing procedures to art market is indicated. The main stages of art market development in Russia are researched. The problems inherent to the domestic market of artworks are analyzed separately. A conclusion about the prospects of existence and development of this institute in Russia is made.

The article reveals the perspectives of applying webquest technology to foreign language teaching as a quintessential approach of raising motivation and developing foreign communicative competence.