Keyword: «economic education»

The paper deals with the actual question of economic education of preschool children, caused by the modern realities of pre-school education. The author discloses theoretical aspects of the nature of economic literacy of children at the stage of pre-school childhood. The author pays particular attention to the family as the primary environment in which the child masters the economic concepts.

The paper deals with the issue of young people employment in Russia. The author identifies the cause of graduates’ unemployment (their inexperience), provides statistical and sociological analysis of survey data and sites for employment. Economic education is highlighted as a leading and crucial factor in all career issues of students and graduates. Networking cooperation of higher school, business, government, political party that allows to conduct payed traineeship and practical training is considered.

The article provides the definition of "economic culture", "economic education", are referred to as components of formation of economic education; identifies specific targets at all levels of economic culture; discusses the impact on the economic culture of socio-pedagogical components of the living conditions of the people; notes that the growing economic and social role of the individual in society leads to an understanding of the need to ensure quality education in the field of economic culture.

This article is devoted to the problem of updating economic knowledge in preparing students for entering economic fields. The article presents the concept of "financial literacy" as the main quality required by an applicant for an economic profile. The experience of career guidance on the formation of financial literacy of students is presented.

The relevance of the study of the issues of training specialists in economics for industrial enterprises of the Russian Federation is due to the need for these enterprises to solve tasks set by the country's leadership: computerization, sustainable development, import substitution, technological independence of Russia, and V. V. Putin's proposal to "return to the traditional basic training of specialists with higher education", combining the best of the Soviet system and experience the last decades. The purpose of this article is to study the peculiarities of the training of specialists in economics with higher education for domestic industrial enterprises in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods, to identify existing problems and identify opportunities for their solution in the conditions of the course of changes in higher education set by the President of the Russian Federation and guidelines for the development of Russian industry. In the course of the research, the following methods were used: analysis, synthesis, generalization, systematization, comparison. The results of studying the problems of training specialists in economics for industrial enterprises of the Russian Federation at the present stage of the country's development demonstrated the washing out of the curricula of technical and technological disciplines, which were mandatory in the Soviet period, and industry specifics was practically eliminated. The solution to this problem is possible both through the introduction of a specialty with the assignment of the qualification "engineer-economist", and the development of specialized, tailored to the needs of specific enterprises and/or industries, the main educational master's degree programs for graduates of engineering specialties with focus on economic disciplines. Following the traditional model of economist training, when a student studies a sequence of courses predetermined by the university, or providing the student with a choice of the disciplines studied should depend on its infrastructural, material, financial status, and the level of academic staff qualification. Universities with limited resources have two ways – refusal of training in interdisciplinary specialties, which include "engineer-economist", or networking with other universities in the training of future economists for industrial enterprises. The theoretical significance of the article consists in the systematization of existing research works on the training of specialists in economics with higher education for industrial enterprises of the Russian Federation; its practical significance lies in the applicability of the conclusions formulated in the development of educational standards for economists, including engineers, economists, managers, and in the justification of the content of the main educational programs and the choice of educational models training by universities.