No 4 (2013)

The article explores content of a teachers’ readiness for future interaction with members of educational medium, analyses the use of various information resources contributing to improvement of professional skills.

The article considers various approaches to developing literary skills in elementary schoolchildren, as well as the application of different fine arts to literary analysis.

The present paper considers peculiar issues associated with the psychological self-defense in adolescents after committing homicides and its effectiveness when they deal with existential issues. The main characteristics of a psychological self-defense are studied, such as an overall tension degree of the entire self-defense system; the dominant self-defense mechanisms are revealed, the tension degree of every mechanism alongside a wide range of forms they take are evaluated.

The paper considers one of the present-day methodological approaches to pedagogy — the paradigm approach. The study elaborates on the nature, specific features and structure of historical — pedagogical knowledge; indicates specific approach to systematic analysis of training activities content.

The present paper presents a structural and functional model of a mental self-regulation, which discloses the essence of individual differences within a human’s autoregulative system, apace with its dominant mechanisms and principles. It is expected that the use of the above mentioned model could be highly effective in theoretical analysis of aggressive criminal behavior and in practical circumstances such as crime investigations and forensic medical examinations.

The article presents the systematization of modern approaches to the problem of determining the psychological characteristics of attribution of success. It also deals with the binarity of the success phenomenon in its attribute attitude. Attribution of success is shown from the perspective of studying the following psychological phenomena: the locus of control, responsibility, motivation, interpersonal relationships, values. The theoretical analysis is selected as the internal mechanism of attribution and, at the same time, as the system-forming phenomenon of the more complicated structure of success.

The present work considers the ethnocultural component of school education, its content and nature. The author describes objective positive and negative tendencies that facilitate activities intended to help oncoming generation foster their inner world in accordance with the traditional pedagogy of Khanty and Mansi Indigenous People.

The article describes main stages of the programme devoted to pedagogical assistance in development of research culture in schoolchildren enrolled in school science communities.