We consider the main trends in the development of pedagogical education, among which are highlighted: the formation of a system of continuing pedagogical education; development of digital pedagogy: e-learning and e-learning environment; reliance on practical orientation in the educational process and personalization of education; development of STEAM-education and the formation of educational ecosystem, taking into account the principles of openness, flexibility, scalability. Based on the proposed trends, we describe the main guidelines and development directions of the Pedagogical Institute of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education “Derzhavin Tambov State University”. The experience of implementing the regional project “New models of pedagogical classes” is described: the models “Pedagogical pre-university” and “Network pedagogical class”; organization and implementation of the online learning process in a pandemic; experience in the implementation of pedagogical and socially significant projects and activities that form the so-called educational ecosystem at the Pedagogical Institute, etc. Among the main development prospects are: specification and expansion of the nomenclature of programs of pedagogical areas of training with two profiles; development and implementation of pedagogical internship programs; creation and approbation of didactic simulators as part of the development of the electronic educational environment of the Pedagogical Institute, etc.

The subject of this research is the problem of social partnership, which determines modern social processes, interactions, and spaces. The priorities and standards of modern educational policy actualize its significance. The purpose of the work is to consider the professional education of the future teacher from the standpoint of social partnership and its design in the socially oriented space of a social minded school. Using the methods of dynamic and contextual analysis of the educational system, theoretical analysis of literature, review analysis of the experience of foreign countries (France, Finland, Germany, Poland): 1) the definition of “social partnership” is theoretically formulated; 2) the concepts of “social minded school” and “socially oriented education” are substantively justified; 3) the social and educational components of these phenomena are noted, which allow them to become a unifying principle and a field of active social interaction between the state and society. We emphasize the practical importance of professional training of a future teacher for successful work in a new social minded school due to the wide possibilities of social partnership between the state, society and the interested civil community, as well as the resource opportunities and innovative potential of the university where future teacher studied.

The continuity and intensity of the process of society development is determined by the human need for socialization. At the present stage of its existence, social institutions are directly related not only to the process of communication, but also to certain areas of scientific knowledge. We propose the definition of the term “discourse”, which is understood as a set of sequentially interconnected in the sense of communication acts produced by the communicants in the context of a given communication situation. The implementation of certain types of discourse in the educational process contributes to the development of components of foreign language communicative competence among students. The institutional discourse studied at the center of scientific research is presented as a complex, normatively organized communicative phenomenon that exists in the context of a particular social institution and contributes to the development of social and cultural, linguistic and speech competencies among students. We conduct an analysis of some types of institutional discourse – political, economic and military. We use aim, chronotope, participants and genres as the basic elements of the characteristics in the analysis. It is noted that, despite a certain difference in the characteristics of institutional types and a wide variety of their genre interpretations, the priority goal, regardless of the given communication situation, will be unchanged. We differentiate into a priority goal and an additional one, which is realized in the context of a specific communication situation. We also note the methodic potential of the institutional discourse implementation on the example of political, economic and military types.

Negation is a fundamental category in English that permeates the entire structure of the language. Learning negation is an important aspect of comprehensive language acquisition. We substantiate the possibility of teaching negation on a linguocognitive basis using principles and practices obtained in the framework of cognitive linguistics. Insight into the wide range of language means of expressing negation and its functional characteristics in English are provided. Apart from that, the structure of the semantic category of negation, its prototypical core, and the near and far periphery are described. Each of the functional characteristics of negation – absence, inconsistency, negative assessment, negative communicative reaction – is examined in detail. We provide examples of activities aimed at teaching the aforementioned functions of negation and peculiar properties of such teaching. Apart from that, it analyzes the advantages of the linguocognitive approach to teaching each of the functional characteristics of negation, as well as the cognitive mechanisms underlying them. We consider the possible difficulties of teaching negation and proposes ways to overcome them. It provides evidence for the high integrative and explicative potential of the linguocognitive approach to teaching negation in English which helps to combine the successful principles and methods proposed in both the traditional approach and the communicative language teaching.

The work is prepared as part of a study aimed at finding effective ways of teaching English to medical programmes students. The subject of the research is the tendencies of linguodidactics in non-linguistic programmes in Russian higher education. We consider methods focusing on the development of academic language competence, based on approaches related to the integration of authentic texts in the specialty into the study of the English language, among which one can single out content and language integrated learning (hereinafter – CLIL) and English for special purposes (hereinafter – ESP). They help to improve not only the language competence of future doctors, but also academic and cognitive. The use of these approaches makes it possible to improve the skills of foreign language communication in the framework of professional education without breaking a single methodic continuum, which is important because it contributes to an improvement in the ratio of time costs and results without reducing the quality of education. Scientific novelty lies in the consideration of the competence-based approach in higher education from the position of bilingualism. In the course of the work, fundamental patterns of ontogeny of artificial bilingualism were discovered, which are adapted to the conditions of modern medical discourse, which determines the methods of research – deduction, abstraction and analysis. As a result, it was concluded that in order to comply with the requirements for the preparation of medical programmes students, it is necessary to develop the interlanguage to the level of fluent bilitarity. The results obtained can be used in the development of specialized training programs.

We substantiate the relevance of didactic design of social and pedagogical education programs aimed at formation of ability to develop project performance indicators as an element of the management culture of a future specialist in the field of social and pedagogical activity. It is noted that the modern social situation requires changes in the sphere of social and pedagogical activity as an instrument of humanization of society through the implementation of strategies, projects and programs of state policy on childhood, and, therefore, changing direction of higher education of specialists in the field of social and pedagogical activity. We show the necessity of implementing an educational module aimed at developing competence in the field of determining (formulating) quantitative and qualitative results of projects. It is proved that one of the elements of the management culture of specialists in the field of social and pedagogical education is the definition (formulation) of quantitative and qualitative results. The concept of “managerial culture of a specialist in the sphere of social and pedagogical education” is characterized. The management culture of a specialist in the field of social and pedagogical education is a strategic resource for the development of a professional. We present the main interpretations of the concept of “efficiency”, show that the formation of an adequate mechanism for evaluating efficiency is impossible without the correct selection and accurate formulation of performance indicators. The stages of development of social project performance indicators are considered. The components of the educational module “Quantitative and qualitative indicators of social project performance” are considered. The data of the entrance survey of students are presented.

We raise the problem of preventing deviant behavior of students in secondary professional educational organizations. The relevance of the research topic is due to the need to resolve the contradiction between the society’s need for training healthy specialists in physical, mental and moral aspects and the high level of deviant prevalence among adolescents and students, as well as insufficient study of the potential of physical and recreational activities as a way to prevent students’ deviant behavior. The purpose of the study is the justification of the prevention system of deviant behavior of students in secondary professional educational institutions using means of physical recreation. We use theoretical and empirical research methods, the leading place among which is occupied by the analysis of the state of the problem in pedagogical theory and practice, as well as a pedagogical experiment. It is established that the proposed system should include targeted, substantive, operational, criteria and evaluative, resultative components and be implemented with the inclusion of the main participants in the educational process. All forms of motor activity of students in the educational process, contributing to the constructive development of their personality, were classified as means of physical recreation. A significant place in the developed system is reserved for training complexes, differentially used depending on the level of manifestation of students’ deviation. It is proved that the effectiveness of the prevention system of deviant behavior of students in secondary vocational educational institutions using means of physical recreation is achieved by implementing a set of pedagogical conditions: organizational, stimulating, methodic and the conditions of the theoretical, psychological and technological preparedness of teachers for this kind of activity.

The study is devoted to the problem of teaching English to children of senior preschool age. We emphasize the need for the correct choice of means of communicative skills development of senior preschoolers. Game is the leading mean of language teaching at this age. However, the main method of teaching is recognized as a sample of adult speech and repeated repetitions of the sample, memorizing words and phrases after the teacher. We make an attempt to find the most optimal ways to develop English speech skills of preschool children. The authors’ own suggestions are based on a survey of children that was conducted as part of the ascertaining stage of the experiment. The ascertaining experiment consisted in determining the initial level of speech skills development of senior preschoolers in the field of English. The survey of speech skills of senior preschoolers included the study of two main components: listening and speaking in English. We describe the level of language proficiency of children of the preparatory school group. Diagnostics showed that about half of the children are at an insufficient level of understanding of English speech and communication in English. Experimental training provided for the definition of a system of games for preschoolers, creating special conditions for understanding the features of the English language. The use of specially selected games in teaching English allowed children to develop the ability to create independent statements on various topics, choose words, build phrases for the implementation of statements, and increase motivation to learn English.

We consider the process of self-development of student youth in the context of the functioning of student scientific society, which is a space for self-identification, self-determination and self-development of youth in the structure of civil society. The basic mechanisms of self-develop-ment are revealed: self-understanding, self-awareness, self-determination, self-government, self-improvement and self-realization. It is noted that they are all interconnected and interact with each other, their consistent implementation forms a kind of algorithm for moving to higher forms of self-improvement. The characteristic is given to the principles under which the social and cultural conditions for students’ self-development will be most vividly realized (subjectivity, motivational orientation of self-development, effectiveness of cultural activity, facilitation, focus, coherence, consistency and continuity in the content of the educational process, the connection of upbringing with life, the democracy of the upbringing system, interactivity, individualization, differentiation and tolerance of the education system, integrity and structure, variability and competitiveness of the activity of self-developing personality). Particular attention is paid to social and cultural activities, which are aimed at self-realization of the personality, self-development of personal spiritual and physical potential of students. Personal self-development connected with integration into the internal and external activities of the individual for self-designing and self-creation at the level of self-awareness, motivational, value and emotional spheres, behavior in accordance with the requirements of the social and normative space and the tasks of research, social organizational and social and cultural activities of student scientific society.

We consider and examine the scientific essence of the category of artistic image as a special phenomenon necessary for the implementation of the author’s idea. The relevance of the research lies in the fact that there is a need to develop new pedagogical conditions for the successful development of performing skills using the modern repertoire. Attention is focused on the fact that the performance of musical works by modern composers is interesting to children, since they most accurately reflect the existing trends and directions of the world around them, and therefore the figurative sphere is not far-fetched, but natural and simple. Cycles of children’s plays by classical and modern composers are presented in a systematic form, and their analytical review is conducted. It is emphasized that the involvement of knowledge in the field of children’s cycles and individual plays by modern composers allows us to take a new look at the process of development of performing skills of primary school students. We substantiate and analyze the relationship between agogic deviations and technical skills in the process of implementing an artistic image during a concert performance. It is concluded that a complete bright and rich performance of the work is impossible without the emotional and aesthetic development of the student.

We consider the aspect of students’ patriotic education in the professional instrumental training class on the basis of a selection of the most relevant for the pedagogical process meaning of the concept “patriotism” and the use of information from the field of musical local lore. The need to include in the pedagogical process intellectual conversations on patriotism as a subject of philosophy, political science is justified by a brief analysis of the existence in the Russian cultural environment of a popular quote from the heritage of S. Johnson. The concept of “patriotism” is comprehended in accordance with the definition of the German philosopher M. Merton, as well as in accordance with the works of I. Vernadsky, B. Chicherin and others. The main thesis being proved is that patriotism is not only a goal, but also a mean of education. The declared pedagogical position is based on the experience of patriotic education in domestic pedagogy, presented by the works of K.D. Ushinsky, V.P. Vakhterov, N.A. Korf, N.I. Pirogov, L.N. Tolstoy, P.P. Blonsky, P.F. Kapterev and others. Intellectualization in the “teacher-student” dialogue space is used as the main technique for the implementation of patriotic education. A selection of works recommended for inclusion in the repertoire of an instrumental musician is presented. The theoretical attitude is confirmed by examples of musicians’ works, whose names are cultural symbols of the Tambov Region: A.N. Verstovsky, S.V. Rachmaninov, F.I. Chaliapin, V.I. Agapkin, I.A. Shatrov. Particular emphasis is placed on the theme of the Great Patriotic War in the work of the modern Tambov composer – O.I. Egorova.

We consider a special area of didactics – teaching and upbringing of children with disabilities by means of ballroom dance. We define the development specifics of children with disabilities from the positions of pedagogical approaches such as axiological, cultural, social, individual, activity, system, personal-activity, innovative. They are the theoretical basis and determine the strategy for solving current problems in the system of teaching and upbringing of children with disabilities by means of ballroom dance. We also identify tasks that solve the problems of the development of children with disabilities by means of ballroom dance. The study arouses interest in methodic materials from the developed adapted educational program “Basics of ballroom dance for children with disabilities” in the ballroom dance team “Kaleidoscope”, in Psychological and Pedagogical Support and Correction Center “Harmony” Tambov Regional State Budgetary Educational Institution of the city of Rasskazovo, Tambov Region.

We contribute to the discussion of the results of a significant resettlement policy, the role of the gendarme railway police in its implementation and the role of the gendarme structure in the history of the Russian Empire. For the first time, we make an attempt to disclose the mechanism of the gendarme railway police in implementing the state’s resettlement policy in the area of migration flows on the materials of the Kursk Governorate, taking into account the existing railway network and the structure of the gendarme police departments. Based on the materials of the State Archive of the Russian Federation and local archives, the issues of legal regulation of mass railway transportation by the gendarme railway police are considered. An analysis of the gendarme’s paperwork based on the materials of the Kursk branch of the gendarme police department of the Moscow-Kursk railway is given, aspects of interaction with the railway administration, local authorities, and the general police are highlighted. We trace the change and expansion of the duties of the railway gendarmes in connection with changes in the resettlement policy during the period under review and highlight the main stages. Particular attention is paid to issues of public safety in the context of criminalization on the railways. We show the role of the gendarme railway police in ensuring the sanitary and epidemiological welfare of passengers, taking into account the situation in the Kursk Governorate. Particular attention is paid to the influence of resettlement processes on the internal organizational, personnel aspects of the activities of the railway police, the dependence of the employee’s spiritual and moral condition on personal choice. We draw conclusions on the significance, scale, diversity of the gendarme railway police activities during the implementation of the resettlement policy.

In the first half of the 19th century, two religious and philosophical movements, diametrically opposite in their views, emerged in Russia, later called “Westernizers” and “Slavophiles”. Both worldviews, based on the foundations of the Western Christian and Eastern Christian understanding of the structure of church and state, public relations, the influence of tradition on the historical choice of the state development vector, led to heated discussions between their founders, and subsequently their supporters. In support of the representatives of the philosophical and social thought of the “Westernizers” “Slavophiles” on theological issues, as well as the reviewing of particular articles, both Catholic and Orthodox clergymen were involved. We reveal the influence of the Orthodox theological thought of the 19th century on the religious philosophy development of one of the founders of “Slavophilism” in terms of posing and solving the problem of historical tradition. The relevance of the study is due to the increased interest in the issue of the spiritual life of society and church-state relations. The work contains for the first time introduced into scientific circulation a handwritten letter from hegumen Anthony (Bochkov) to I.V. Kireyevsky from the funds of the Russian State Library with author’s comments and explanations. The problems of religious and philosophical thought of this period are revealed, that is the influence of Roman (pagan) philosophy on the formation and development of Western theology, opposing the development paths of Russia and Europe, recognition of the negative influence of ritualism on the formation of a true Orthodox worldview, understanding of Peter I reforms as a “Russian reformation”. The analysis of the epistolary source made it possible to reveal the direct impact of the arguments of hegumen Anthony on the views of I.V. Kireyevsky, reflected in his works.

The heightened interest of researchers of the Tambov Governorate in the biography of the Aseevs as the richest dynasty of the broadcloth manufacturers determines the relevance of the study. We summarize the known and new to the scientific community information about Vasily Aseev and Tikhon Aseev – the elder representatives of the main merchant dynasty of the Tambov Governorate. The study reveals the reasons for the resettlement of the Aseevs in the villages of Rasskazovo of the Tambov Governorate; the conditions for the acquisition of the first broadcloth factories and distilleries in the Tambov and Saratov Governorates; their productivity and staff; the prerequisites for their transition to the merchants heirs and the emergence of the “Trading House of the brothers M.V. and V.T. Aseev” and the social activity of the manufacturers. We present detailed metric data and the family ties of the first three generations of the Aseevs. As part of study we review and critically analyzed a number of works on the manufacturers’ biography and draw attention to the unipolar and tendentious approach in describing the personality of M.V. Aseev and his philanthropy to the detriment of historical authenticity, as well as the insufficiency and stinginess of researches on other representatives of the Aseevs and their industrial and social activities.

We describe the working conditions of piecework workers of landowner’s household of Tambov Governorate at the late 19th century. We analyze the specifics of early forms of employment, the amount of wages, and the relationship between the employee and the employer. The relevance of the research is determined by the need to fill the historiographical gap in the study of working conditions of piecework workers, its significance for the development of the landowner’s household after the abolition of serfdom. The novelty of the work is determined by a comprehensive study of agricultural hiring in landowner’s economies, consideration of both collective and individual forms of employment of piecework workers. The source for this work was the materials describing large Tambov estates, collections of statistical data on the Tambov Governorate. It is shown that piecework workers received money for performing a strictly defined task by mutual agreement with the landowner. Such workers could be employed in different areas of the landowner’s household. At the same time, it is established that the economic format of the absolute majority of piecework workers in Tambov economies was associated with the procedure of returning the debt to the landowner. This allowed to reduce the amount of real payments to piecework workers. Based on the study of workers’ labor, it is revealed that in addition to the monetary form of advance hiring for field work, the region also widely practiced the in-kind form of payment, secured by lease agreements for the sublease of land. It was found that the winter hiring of workers and the reduction of wages created the ground for abuse of hired workers.

We describe emerged in the Russian Empire an organizational basis of support for the First World War invalids. The policy of charity for military invalids generated with the participation of official, public and charitable elements. We reveal the complex relationship between the main actors in this process – one of the “crown” charity committees (Special Commission of Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna), the Central bodies of the County Union and the Union of Cities, and local self-government. Using archival materials, the main guidelines for creating a war-mutilated charity system are identified. We determine the leading approaches to the architecture of the state and public system of support to former military personnel who have lost their working ability. In addition, we discuss in details the topic of war-mutilated registration, which was supposed to be the first stage of building a national system of care for war invalids, but it was never carried out. We also focus on the financial aspects of supporting military invalids. We conclude that the system for the war-mutilated charity could have become the first fully implemented direction of state social policy in Russian history, but it failed to realize its potential due to political contradictions between the official government and liberal associations.

We examine various aspects of the introduction of polytechnic education in educational institutions of the Central Black Earth Region. The relevance of the study is justified primarily by the fact that this aspect of the development of domestic education has not been previously studied, and also by novelty of archival documents introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. We focus on the legislative consolidation of the principles of polytechnism in the framework of the educational reform in the early 30s of 20th century, as well as on the theoretical understanding of the technological aspect of the educational process. The purpose of this research is to study the state policy aimed at developing labor training and education in lower and secondary educational institutions and implementing its aspects in the Central Black Earth Region. The study analyzes the measures taken by the regional authorities within the framework of implementing the party’s policy on education polytechnization: increasing the number of workshops and workrooms, purchasing equipment, assigning household plots to schools, organizing clubs and competitions, conducting excursions to enterprises, improving the skills of school employees and librarians, helping them establish contacts with enterprises and allocating them experienced engineers and technicians to work in schools. We examine the difficulties that accompanied school polytechnization. They included: poor equipment of workshops, low qualifications of instructors and teachers, unwillingness of managers of a number of organizations to meet halfway with schools, formalism in organizing socialist competitions and contracts with enterprises, underestimation by school administrators and teachers of the importance of technical training. In conclusion, we summarize the achievements and shortcomings of the polytechnic aspect of the educational process in the Central Black Earth Region of the early 1930s, and outline further prospects for labor training in Soviet schools.

We consider the issues of organization of Red Army Railway Troops’ Officer Corps training prior to the Great Patriotic War. The relevance of the study comes from insufficient knowledge of military personnel training for Military communication service’s units and Special Railway Troops’ Corps. We study the combat experience and other related factors that have influenced the activities of military educational institutions and military administration in military personnel training. Features of using the various military conflicts’ combat experience in the training process are revealed. Drawbacks in Officer Corps’s training are described in detail. We note the insufficient level of practical training of graduates of railway troops military educational institutions and the separation of learning theory from the troops activities. We draw conclusion about the limitations in combat experience education as one of the reasons for the insufficient level of combat readiness in the pre-war period.

We analyze the activities of the party organization at the editorial office of the newspaper “Tambovskaya Pravda” in the second half of the 1940s based on archival data. Particular attention is paid to how the authorities influenced the work of the local press. As a matter of fact, the purpose of the research is to study the specifics of the relationship between the editorial office of the newspaper “Tamboskaya Pravda” and the authorities. It is especially important to trace how the authorities had a direct influence on mass media. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that this interaction is little studied at the local level. It is proved that the newspaper, which is the main mean of propaganda, mobilized the masses for labor achievements during the first post-war five-year plan. In addition, the newspaper brokered a dialogue with the authorities through letters that were regularly delivered to the editorial office. It is substantiated that there was control over the activities of the main newspaper of the Tambov Region and any deviation from particular rules was punished and condemned. Sometimes one or another newspaper material became the subject of discussion at the meetings of the Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union(b). Among other things, a lot of attention was paid to the ideological and political education of the editorial staff of the newspaper “Tambovskaya Pravda”.

The study is devoted to the development of the national school system in the Soviet state in 1946–1950 on the example of Ulyanovsk Region. The relevance of the study lies in the fact that in the current realities in the Russian Federation, it is necessary, within the framework of reforming activities in the field of education, to find an effective option for transforming the national school into an institution with a high-quality level of educational services to representatives of non-Russian nationalities. The problem is analyzed on the basis of archival sources drawn from the funds of the State Archive of Contemporary History of the Ulyanovsk Region (SACH UR) and the State Archive of the Ulyanovsk Region (SAUR), for the first time introduced into scientific circulation, as well as regional periodical materials. We conduct a retrospective analysis of the condition of the school premises, their equipment with educational literature, visual aids, and also examined the state of the level of students’ education and teaching methods in national and Russian schools of the Ulyanovsk Region. It is concluded that the authorities in the Ulyanovsk Region were able to lay a solid foundation for the further development of the education system.

We examine letters texts of Sidonius Apollinaris, Bishop of Augustonemetum (modern Clermont) in Roman Gaul, affecting the issues of elections and consecration of bishops in Gallic cities. We consider the problem of determining the circle of persons participating in the election and consecration of bishops in the Christian Church of the last third of the 5th century, persons who may be elected as proteges to the bishop’s departments, and the process of ordination. In the literature there are various points of view on the problem. Some researchers believe that the elections were democratic, almost national, while others say that the voice of the people (laiks) did not have a decisive significance: the right to make a final decision belonged to the episcopate. Most authors do not give exhaustive arguments based directly on historical practice in favor of their point of view, and if they give them, they are fragmentary, therefore, the indicated problems seem relevant at the present time. A study of the materials presented by Sidonius shows that the choice of a provincial bishop is made by the metropolitan together with other bishops of the province, and the metropolitan performs the consecration individually. Participation of people is mostly purely formal. The election of the metropolitan is carried out only by the bishops of his province, although if they are insufficient, the consent of the metropolitans of neighboring provinces is required, moreover, it can be distant. The issue of the possibility of a national election of the metropolitan remains open, but the likelihood of such an election seems very small. The consecration of the metropolitan can also be performed by one bishop: the rule of conciliarity is not strictly enforced.