Modern methodology has faced challenges in the field of developing primary school students’ awareness of their own identity in the process of learning foreign languages. Globalization has put forward the question how to advance intercultural competence among both school students and educators. Cultural and national awareness is an essential component of foreign language teaching. The article is aimed at revealing the peculiarities of intercultural communication hinged on the interaction of various cultures tracked down in modern foreign language classes. The analysis is based on the new textbooks “Dialogue with English” for 2-4 year schoolchildren. The research focuses on the ways cultural elements and facts of the English-speaking world are compared with the same features in the Russian-speaking community. As a result, it elicits different stages in the pupils’ identity formation and development of their sociocultural competence. The authors specify the prerequisites for digital technologies use in teaching English to primary school students.

The article is devoted to the study of self-regulation of cognitive states in the educational activities of students according to the system-functional approach. The scientific task of the research is in the intersection zone of two fundamental areas of psychology – self-regulation of human mental states and management of educational and cognitive activity of the subject. The article presents a structural-functional model of self-regulation of cognitive states. The components of the regulatory process are highlighted: learning situations, reflection, images of the present and the target state, learning styles, as well as the individual characteristics of students. The chosen research methodology corresponds to the current trends in psychology – the identification of integrative factors that ensure the success of the subject's activities. The study of self-regulation of cognitive states broadens the understanding of the role of mental states in learning, supplements them with knowledge of the mechanisms of self-regulation of cognitive states. In the applied plan, the study of self-regulation of cognitive states is useful for general and pedagogical psychology. The proposed model can be used to solve issues of cognitive activity and independence of students, as well as to organize work with the weak students.

The need to consolidate multi-ethnic, multi-confessional society, taking place in the context of intensified international interaction, makes it important to implement the strategy of forming a personality as a representative of an ethnic group, civil society and the world community. The formation of such qualities as citizenship, patriotism, social responsibility is closely associated with the formation of ideas about the socio-cultural values of the native people, about the dialogue of cultures, tolerance, and respect for the multinational, multicultural composition of the society. The ethnocultural approach, which defines ethnic culture as a source of personality development, requires special attention, considering upbringing and education as its most important component and main channel of translation, due to which the process of studying and appropriating ethnocultural experience in its symbolism and meanings contributes to the formation of a person’s personality, as a carrier, keeper and creator of ethnic culture. Based on the foregoing, the aim of the study is: to reveal the essential content of the civic identity of a personality, to substantiate the significance of the ethnocultural approach in its formation, to identify and experimentally verify the positive effects of the ethnocultural orientation of education. Research methods: theoretical methods, among which the analysis of the subject of research on the basis of the study of philosophical, psychological and pedagogical literature; reflective-system analysis of the justified organization of pedagogical activity. As empirical methods, questionnaires and testing of students were used. The study involved 200 students of I. Yakovlev Chuvash State Pedagogical University. The study allows us to conclude that there is a significant presence of an ethnocultural component in the structure of the civic identity of an individual (the ethnic, All-Russian, and universal components of the cognitive, emotional-evaluative, value-orientational, and activity components), the importance of the ethnocultural approach in its formation (the use of ethnocultural pedagogical technologies, a characteristic feature which is a focus on the study of various aspects of traditional folk culture different ethnic groups and which may be personality-oriented technologies, design technologies, information and communication technologies, problem-dialogue technologies, game technologies, ethnopedagogical technologies, etc.), the effectiveness of the ethnocultural orientation of education. The results of the study can be used in the development of programs of civil, patriotic education of students in higher education, the organization of educational work with students, in the preparation of curators and mentors of educational groups.

In the former Soviet Union translators/interpreters-to-be were trained only in a few field-specific linguistic (and in a couple of military institutions. Later, in XXI, Russia signed the Bologna Declaration, Russian institutes and universities got an opportunity to choose what they teach, were allowed to provide commercial services and many introduced both short-term training courses for translators/interpreters and long-term BA / MA translator training programs as the social demand for translators increased. This paper discusses various ways and means of translator/interpreter training both in Russia and abroad together with those practiced in Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education. The paper also presents the results of regular anonymous questionnaires among the students dealing with links between our teaching and students' views in order to facilitate both students' professional training and to make the curriculum more adaptive to the present-day situation on the job market.The results showed that though most students' views on their future profession are rather vague, most of them are not disappointed in the profession chosen. Bachelors' and masters' attitudes and assessments, however, differ as senior students have more experience and can critically evaluate their future career perspectives. Master students value their university and practical experience more than bachelor students, they know more of the situation in the job market and are ready to face the challengers of this profession. The authors conclude that the existing BA / MA programs need changes considering both students' and their potential employers' interests and demands.

The article is devoted to the study of the peculiarities of the psychological well-being of teachers from different learning environments. The purpose of the study is to examine the satisfaction with life those teachers’ who work in schools with a high economic or educational rating. The theoretical basis of the study was the work of Bredburn (1969) and Shiryaeva (2008). It has been established that teachers are equally satisfied with their lives, regardless of the rating of the school where they work. It was found that for teachers from schools with a high economic rating, the subjective value of professional activity is more significant than for teachers from schools with a high educational rating. The higher the indicators of such spheres as independence and physical well-being are, the higher the involved position of the teacher in solving problems in both studied groups.However, for teachers from schools with a high economic rating, social support, and personal convictions are also important. While for teachers from schools with a high educational rating, it is necessary to experience positive emotions and be able to study. The sense of mental stability and balance is interconnected with the psychological sphere in the group of teachers from schools with a high economic rate. At the same time, teachers from schools with a high educational rating have this relationship with all spheres of life - the physical sphere, the psychological sphere, the level of independence, social relationships, the environment, the spiritual sphere. Accordingly, the mental resistance of the teacher’s group from high educational rating schools to problems is possible in the condition of their overall psychological well-being.

The professional motivation and interest of the teacher in the students’ educational results are the key resources that allow educational institutions to minimize the existing inequality of educational opportunities for members of different social groups. On this point, one of the important issues of professional training of future teachers is the formation of motivation for their professional activity regarded as a factor that ensures the equality of educational opportunities for students from different social groups. Based on the results of empirical studies of different years, the article analyzes the changes that occurred in the professional motivation of students after the Ussuriysk State Pedagogical Institute joined the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) in 2011 as the School of Education. A questionnaire-based survey was conducted to collect primary empirical information. In the 2010 research, a stratified sample model was used; its size was 200 of first-year and graduate students enrolled in education studies. In 2019, the continuous survey method was used.The use of the same measuring instruments made it possible to conduct a comparative analysis of the professional motivation of students in different periods. The revealed positive changes in the dynamics of the indicators “motivation for professional activity” and “satisfaction with the profession of a teacher” were interpreted in the context of the influence of the family socioeconomic status on educational inequality. The data obtained during the comparative analysis of the two studies are the basis for the implementation of the model of research education for students enrolled in the field of “Education and Pedagogical Sciences” at the FEFU School of Education. A student who has mastered the required research processes is ready to use them in the educational process when working as a teacher. The inclusion of students in research will contribute to the intellectual development of students and increase the chances of a successful career in the knowledge economy for students from less socially privileged families.

The higher educational reform being currently in progress calls for the creation of an open digital educational space, which makes the joint activity of autonomous actors a topical issue, as it is central to the online educational process. In order to be able to actively and effectively participate in online education, students of higher educational institutions need to have formed a psychological readiness for carrying out joint as autonomous actors in online learning.This article analyses the problem of students' psychological readiness for joint activity as autonomous actors in the process of online education and discusses theoretical and practical aspects of online education in higher school. It also reports empirical research carried out by the authors in order to classify students into groups with different levels of psychological readiness for joint activity based on the criteria of autonomy and jointness.The methods for this research included interviews and questionnaire surveys, as they allowed us to identify the indicators of autonomy and jointness of activity.The article describes indicators of low-level and high-level autonomy in the process of online education and joint activity. Based on these indicators, the authors describe different types of students with different levels of motivational, volitional and communicational readiness for joint activity as autonomous actors.Our research enables us to argue that in the process of online education it is possible to create conditions for students to develop a high-level psychological readiness for joint activity as autonomous actors.

Every day new organizations are established. At the same time, every day hundreds of organizations are liquidated forever. Those who know how to adapt are likely to thrive, but the inflexible ones tend to disappear. Some organizations develop faster than others and fulfill their aims better than others. The manager should know at what stage of development the organization is and be able to assess whether the accepted leadership style corresponds to this stage.That is why there has been accepted the universally known concept of the life cycle of organizations as predictable changes with a certain sequence of states over time. The theoretical basis was the results of research by Russian and international scientists in the field of systems theory, corporate management, organization’s life cycle theories and crisis management. Research into the development of the human body performed by Vygotsky and it is also mentioned in the current research. The aim of our study is to put into practice the approaches proposed in modern management to make the preschool organization efficient and effective. The results show that a mutually complementary team will provide the result if the members adhere to different approaches and the tasks of each member are clearly defined.

The purpose of this article is to determine the features of export development of Russian higher education at the level of a particular region, taking into account situations typical of ordinary regional universities and branches regarding the national policy to stimulate educational export and digital technologies use. The authors also substantiate the need for the development and adoption of measures aimed at solving interregional and interuniversity inequality problems taking into account financial and other resource opportunities of a given university.When writing the paper, we applied methods of system analysis which include comparisons, dynamic analysis, other methods of statistical analysis, a set of expert methods, including in-depth interviews, surveys, brainstorming, and SWOT analysis.The research results include the collection and processing of in-depth interviews with experts who are employees of international departments of universities of the Volgograd region, a survey of foreign students studying in regional universities and branches, on the basis of which the features of the implementation of the higher education export growth strategy by regional universities were determined and SWOT-analysis was conducted in order to identify risks and opportunities of regional universities and regional economy for educational export and its development.The authors’ findings include justification of digital technologies growing role in increasing the accessibility of Russian higher education to foreign students, justification of high role of higher education export for the regional economy and developed measures for the strategic development of export of higher education on the example of a regional university.

The relevance of the study of prognostic competence is determined by common world development trends, objectives of the current educational policy of Russian Federation, as well as by the requirements of the modern system of education which requires teachers with well-developed prognostic skills. Due to modern trends in education and the need for effective implementation of practical pedagogical activity, the ability to predict becomes one of the priority areas in the professional activity of a teacher. Future teachers must be able to anticipate changes in the educational space, flexibly modify the available information in the context of their professional practice, and build educational process on the basis of scientifically based forecasts. In this regard, the purpose of the article is to reveal the specifics and theoretically substantiate the importance of prognostic competence in professional activities of future teachers. We used the following theoretical research methods: analysis; synthesis; concretization; generalization; analogy method. The article reveals the specifics of the concept of prognostic competence, its features and significance for a successful professional activity of teachers. The materials of the theoretical review and analysis of modern literary sources presented in this article allow us to conclude that a well-formed prognostic competence is a prerequisite for a high-quality and productive professional activity of future teachers.