The aim of the publication is to identify and outline the basic components of pedagogical research: selection and substantiation of research topic; setting the problem and research object, defining the key points, conceptual system, research goals and objectives, its creative core including the main idea of transformation, conception and hypothesis.

The method is based on the panoramic approach focused on identification of research sequence, anticipated content and outcomes.

The research findings include the outline of elements and stages of the roadmap, relevant to intended investigation, as well as the most common mistakes in research process along with the ways out. The author demonstrates the model construction options regarding the initial and desired state of the object or process, and indicates the transition ways from the first model to the second one.

Scientific novelty is related to the idea of progressive education, based on the constructive apprehension of the future society demands and education development scenarios, and combining both the positive traditional and new information communications technologies.

Practical significance results from the careful implementation of the preliminary stage components guaranteeing the research effectiveness.

The study is aimed at developing the basic principles of foundation and functioning of the open educational system, its relevance results from the strategic goal of knowledge integration facing the modern universities.

The research findings and novelty: The author identifies the general needs of the users of open educational resources and proves the advantages of organizing the institutional repositories, based on sociological surveys targeting the university students of Nizhny Novgorod and academic staff of several Russian higher schools. The basic principles of the unified educational information and communications environment were developed, and a feasible structure of educational portal presented.

The practical significance: The research outcomes, complying with the new ≪consumer strategies≫, can be used by the higher educational institutions for developing the distance system of education and implementing the open educational resources in academic process.

The aim of the research is to demonstrate the junior pupils' skills development in still life drawing. Being related to the child's cognitive abilities, well-developed linear space perception positively affects the personality and readiness for various activities. Therefore, pupils' acquaintance with the basics of still life drawing in arts classes has both the aesthetic and psychological and intellectual benefits.

Methodology is based on the analysis of theoretical concepts of art criticism, psychological and pedagogical works on developing artistic and creative skills of junior pupils, along with the teaching problems of picturing the space in still life drawings. The author carried out the research and experimental work in the Omsk comprehensive schools to identify the age evolution of children's still life drawings.

The research results denote the following development stages of junior pupils' skills related to still life picturing: the first stage – still life objects are aligned to the lower paper edge; the second stage – objects are placed on a horizontal line above the lower paper edge, the object plane being parallel to it; the third stage – still life objects are aligned to a single line with the spatial representations of the object planes pictured as a slightly inclined line dividing the paper below the middle of the sheet; the fourth stage – objects are pictured on different heights (above or below each other), the object plane is pictured with two lines reflecting the perspective; the fifth stage – still life objects are pictured on different heights, object overlapping being common and the perspective reflection of the object planes pictured with two or three lines; the sixth stage – objects are placed on different levels, overlapping being obligatory and a multilevel object planes possible.

Scientific novelty implies a systematic analysis, description and illustration of development stages of space picturing in children's still life drawings. Acquisition of the drawing literacy by junior pupils according to the above stagers makes a foundation for fostering the spatial perception – a skill necessary for learning the basics of linear perspective.

Practical value is related to the impact of theoretical and practical aspects of the still life drawing that can be used by the arts teachers in the primary school for developing the basic and higher level tasks complying with the new educational standards.

The paper is devoted to the problems of students' social and professional mobility in the post-industrial society, given the dynamism and uncertainty of future career prospects, and variability and multidimensionality of individual career trajectories.

The research is aimed at defining the phenomenon of social and professional mobility, determining factors of professional growth, and functional structural characteristics of mobility development.

The scientific novelty involves the author's interpretation and conceptual analysis of students’ socio-professional mobility, and its contribution to the future professional growth. The author considers both the objective and subjective factors affecting the uncertainty of students' professional future: objective factors include socio-economic conditions of postindustrial society, systems of vocational education and guidance; subjective factors deal with the intrapersonal conflicts of professional self-determination, discrepancy of socio-professional orientation, and low auto-competency level.

The research findings reveal the structure and characteristic features of students' social and professional mobility: psycho-physiological qualities, cognitive abilities, socio-professional experience and orientation, as well as the negative impact factors. Based on the content analysis and expert evaluation, the author singles out and defines the key characteristics of students’ mobility: adaptability, initiative, innovativeness, learning ability, behavioral flexibility, reflexivity and excessive activity.

Practical significance: the research outcomes provide the ground for extrapolation of students' career prospects in vocational schools, career counseling and job placement centers.

The aim of the research is to explore the development dynamics of the ≪humanitarian culture≫ concept, single out the ways of its renewal, and specify the origins of personal humanitarian culture.

The methods include the theoretical analysis of existing viewpoints on the given issue, formalization of related characteristics, and observation of motivating attitudes to reality. The research is based on the ideas of A. Moles related to cultural socio-dynamics.

The research findings prove the discrepancy between the humanitarian and technocratic, cultural and civilizational attitudes to reality, and consider the humanitarian culture as a personified socio-cultural characteristic rather than cultural context.

Scientific novelty includes identification of development dynamics of the ≪humanitarian culture≫ concept, the ways for updating its content, and the effect on education development.

Practical significance of the present study lies in developing the theoretical tools for further empirical research in the process of personal humanitarian culture formation, and ways for activating the theoretical components of teacher training both in the postgraduate education system and self-studying.

Abstract. The aim of the publication is to demonstrate the implementation results of the “Mathematics, Psychology, Intellect” (MPI) educational project used for selecting and devising the new textbook content for multipurpose learning activities and students’ intellect development in comprehensive schools.

The methodology, based on the psycho-didactic approach, involves the analysis of the existing experience of textbooks development, including the traditional reference and narrative books, and the ones, organized as a dialogue with a student-reader and oriented toward the facts comprehension and reasoning. In the context of the reader-oriented theory, the author proves the advantages of special developmental materials complying with the enrichment model.

Research results describe mathematical textbooks and learning materials development for secondary schools including students’ books, practicum and workbooks for independent study, and computer software for the 5 to 9th –year students. Secondly, the authors denote the psycho-didactic typology of and requirements for developmental texts.

Scientific novelty is related to the specificity of the given academic texts, conveying the structure of the formal mathematical knowledge on the one hand, and on the other hand - developing the basic components of students’ mental experience (including cognitive, conceptual, metacognitive and intentional ones), and creating the conditions for exercising the individual cognitive styles.

Practical significance results from activating the individual intellectual resources of school leavers, developing their learning ability and readiness for the future innovative professional and personal life.

Abstract. The purpose of the publication is to demonstrate the new ways and forms of additional education of schoolchildren and students in special structures of pedagogical universities.

The research method involves the analysis of students' participation in organizing and conducting the competitive events for school children and teachers at the Additional Education Centre of Tomsk Pedagogical University.

The research outcomes demonstrate the specific activities of the physical and mathematical profile students in preparation and fulfillment of competitive events for schoolchildren. The given form of pedagogical practice provides the future teachers with the necessary professional competences complying with the New Federal Educational Standards.

Scientific novelty comprises the specificity of students' activities in collaboration with school teachers and children, facilitating the future teachers' competencies; the main phases of preparation and performance of the competitive events; and students’ competencies developed in the given process.

The practical significance results from implementation of the present research findings in future studies related to developing the new forms of teaching practices.

The aim of the study is to substantiate the need for eliminating the excessive spatial polarization of territorial socio-economic development as a necessary condition for advanced development of human resources potential. The authors explore the basic problems and contradictions of modern regional and local labor markets in Russia. Based on generalization and systematization of foreign and domestic research outcomes, the paper reveals the main condition for eliminating the territorial polarization threats, which implies formation of a new institutional environment in order to provide co-operation of participants in the territorial interest zone in personnel training and new jobs creating.

The research findings demonstrate the increased disproportions between the workforce and labor markets of municipal formations in Sverdlovsk region, and emphasize the need for territorial industrial educational clusters maximizing the network co-operation of the involved parties.

The scientific novelty combines adaptation of theoretical concepts of the “new economic geography” applied to reorganization processes in the Russian economy; and elaboration of the cluster model of advanced development of territorial human resources potential by means of territorial centers coordinating the interests of administration, business society, and households.

Practical significance of the research results is related to facilitating the administrative efficiency of regional and municipal formations, employers, territorial employment centers, and thereby the advanced development of human resources potential.

The aim of the study is to explore the ways for overcoming deformations of anthropological educational bases caused by total informatization. Applying the theoretical and empirical analysis methods, the author indicates the trend toward displacement and substitution of the human image in education, and significant deformation of anthropological educational bases, resulting from informatization of education. The research relates the above anthropological deformations to the first phase of informatization and the platform of ≪human-computer technologies≫, based on Cartesian paradigm or the ≪culture of meaning≫.

Scientific novelty involves substantiating the necessary transition to the new informatization phase of education, based on the telepresence technology and creating the ≪culture of presence≫. Thereby through the media technologies, a real man can be engaged in the process of academic communications. In the future, it can expand to creative cooperation, joint research projects and creative design.

Apart from the theoretical value, the research has its practical significance resulting from the new anthropological platform formation in education.

Abstract. The aim of the research is to examine the genesis and development trends of the “common benefit” idea in the socio-pedagogic thinking of Belarus in the 16-17th centuries, and demonstrate its patriotic spirit and social value.

Methodology includes the methods of logical historical and systematic structural analysis of the main historical determinants and key development factors of the “common benefit” idea in the pedagogical heritage of the 16-17th centuries Belarus. The comparative analysis of various interpretive approaches to defining the “common benefit” by representatives of socio-pedagogical, philosophical and religious historical elite of Belarus revealed the patriotic essence of the given idea due to its consolidating orientation, humanistic content and significance for the multi-ethnic and multi-confessional state formation.

The research results demonstrate the impact of the “common benefit” idea on developing the patriotic social and educational thinking of the 16-17^th centuries Belarus, its influence on national values and pedagogical traditions. Additionally, the author emphasizes the humanistic and tolerant national attitude of Belarusians reflected in the national character and mentality, and related to the above idea.

Scientific novelty involves theoretical substantiation of patriotic value of the ≪common benefit≫ idea for the modern system of civic and patriotic education based on the principles of continuity and development of national traditions.

Practical significance of the research materials is related to studying the historical educational experience, and implementing the traditional values, humanistic orientation and tolerance in the modern civic and patriotic education, and in the youth environment.