scholarly journals Content and Language Integrated Learning: Potential and Obstacles of Its Implementation in Russia

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1 (21)) ◽  
pp. 98-116
Author(s):  
Tatyana Sidorenko ◽  
Alexandra Kudryashova

Reforms and initiatives applied to the field of Russian higher education during the past decade focus particularly on extending the scope of communicative educational space and scientific fields integration. Consequently, linguistic competence contributing to significant acceleration of the processes of globalization and internationalization of the society as a whole becomes the key component of higher professional education. It is necessary to ascertain that the current system of language education in Russian universities fails to deal with the tasks in hand comprehensively. The search for more efficient didactical tools and ways of organizing teaching processes culminated in choosing the paradigm of integrated education, specifically, integration of subject knowledge and foreign language. This approach is well-renowned in scientific and educational literature as CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning). The major objective of the present article is to analyze the current attempts of implementing CLIL in Russian Universities through the example of Tomsk Polytechnic University. The analysis comprises the effectiveness of CLIL didactic capacity, the prerequisites for its emergence as well as needs and challenges in the system of Russian higher education and intellectual labor market. As a conclusion, we offer a systematic list of measures that tend to improve the situation.

2021 ◽  
pp. 57-66
Author(s):  
Александра Владимировна Кудряшова

Проанализированы основные положения Проекта 5-100 на предмет требований, выдвигаемых к вузам-участникам, методологии мировых рейтингов ARWU, QS, THE и их индикаторов как конечных результатов деятельности университетов, позиций российских университетов в мировом образовательном пространстве на примере Томского политехнического университета (ТПУ), а также предложение ряда мероприятий улучшающего вмешательства для корректировки ситуации. Проведен сопоставительный анализ позиций Массачусетского технологического института, Московского государственного университета им. М. В. Ломоносова и ТПУ в мировых рейтингах и определены две группы аспектов деятельности ТПУ: сильные стороны вуза с позиции рейтинга QS и аспекты, требующие корректировки в виду недостаточно высокого количества набираемых баллов. Перечислен ряд мер, направленных на усиление «слабых» позиций ТПУ в мировых рейтингах с целью улучшения качества показателей и предполагающих создание условий для развития мультиязыковой среды, переподготовки преподавателей и пересмотра образовательных программ. В качестве эффективного условия для консолидации рекомендованных мер предложено внедрение в систему обучения в вузе таких методов, которые бы создавали условия для развития мультиязыковой среды, т. е. методов, предполагающих интеграцию предметных знаний и иностранного языка. Гипотеза относительно эффективности методов, интегрирующих предметные и языковые знания, основывается на предположении об их потенциале в отношении усиления практической ориентированности языковой практики среди студентов и преподавателей, а также сокращения временного ресурса на овладение иностранным языком для профессиональной коммуникации. The article considers the urgent problem of improving the competitiveness of Russian universities in the global educational space. The problem is initiated by a challenging requirement to the system of Russian higher professional education, specifically, to comply with the modern pace of world development. This requirement is included in the list of global challenges for universities and is designated in the State Program of the Russian Federation “Development of Education in 2013–2020” as one of the crucial tasks of modernization and development of higher professional education. The launch of Project 5-100 has been the main vector of modernizing Russian higher education. The article aims to analyze the main provisions of Project 5-100, the methodology of world rankings ARWU, QS, THE and their indicators, the positions of Russian universities in the global educational space by the example of Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU), as well as to develop corrective measures. The main research methods were as follows: analysis of pedagogical literature, Project 5-100 documentation, methodology of world rankings ARWU, QS and THE, as well as analysis and synthesis of the information obtained. The study analyzed the positions of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Lomonosov Moscow State University and TPU in the world rankings and identified two groups of TPU activities: TPU strengths and underachievements with regard to QS ranking. As well, measures to fix underachievements by improving the quality of ranking indicators and providing the development of a multilingual environment, retraining teachers and revising educational programs were provided. An effective condition for the consolidation of the proposed measures, it is suggested to implement the teaching methods that would create conditions for the development of a multilingual environment, specifically, the methods involving the integration of subject knowledge and foreign language. The assumption regarding the effectiveness of methods integrating subject and language knowledge is based on their potential to strengthen the practical orientation of language practice among students and teachers, as well as reduce the time resource for mastering a foreign language for professional communication.


2012 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Utkini

This   article   describes   the  experience   in  carrying   out of educational programs of barristers and Masters in the Institute  of  Law of  the oldest  educational  establishment in  Siberia,  Tomsk State University.  Due to  the reforms in Russian higher education that were launched some time ago, the majority of educational programs in higher professional  education  became two­level.  Tomsk State University joined in the activity at the beginning of the 1990s. A research group was set up whose task was to analyze the foreign educational systems and to  work  out  a scheme acceptable for one of the oldest universities of Russia. We  can not  but  admit the qualitatively different motivation for studying that professionally qualified law specialists and bachelors have. The former, who  are self­sufficient at the labor market from  the point  of  view of  modern Russian requirements, consider the master course to be the first step towards their future scientific­pedagogical activity and, while studying, start their research, pass candidate examinations. Master’s degree  course is  a really  elite  legal  education for them. Bachelors from non­state law schools, unfortunately, have a low level of fundamental and applied knowledge of law. For  most of them studying for Master’s degree at Tomsk State University is only a means of getting a prestigious state university degree which  proves to  be competitive at labor market.This   article   describes   the  experience   in  carrying   out of educational programs of barristers and Masters in the Institute  of  Law of  the oldest  educational  establishment in  Siberia,  Tomsk State University.  Due to  the reforms in Russian higher education that were launched some time ago, the majority of educational programs in higher professional  education  became two­level.  Tomsk State University joined in the activity at the beginning of the 1990s. A research group was set up whose task was to analyze the foreign educational systems and to  work  out  a scheme acceptable for one of the oldest universities of Russia.


2021 ◽  
Vol 93 ◽  
pp. 03008
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Kiselev ◽  
Marina Ugryumova ◽  
Aleksandr Sazonov ◽  
Anna Savicheva

Today, the idea of "digitalization" of many areas of activity is being actively implemented in Russia as a factor in the implementation of modern management technologies: "digitalization" of society, "digitalization" of the economy, "digitalization" of production, "digitalization" of management, etc. This idea was not spared by the “digitalization” of the organization of higher education management and the process of training the specialists in Russian universities for domestic organizations. However, not all “good” theoretical ideas have the same “good” practical implementation, since the practice reveals many problems in this area and expects the science to advise on their solution. This article shows the problems associated with the implementation of the ideas of "digitalization" of the organization of domestic higher education and shows possible ways to overcome them and improve the quality of training students as future professionals for domestic organizations, as well as the effective use of "digitalization" in higher education to increase its efficiency as a result of scientific and technological progress. Moreover, the development of such recommendations was based on the historical and modern domestic experience of organizing higher professional education in Russian universities.


Author(s):  
Polina Ananchenkova ◽  
Vasily Bludov ◽  
Marina Spasennikova ◽  
Vladislav Tyunkov

Development of human capital nowadays in the XXi century stands out as the most important factor of transforming economy and society. With help of investments into development of human potential, Russia increases the rates of economic growth, creating the necessary foundation for strengthening its positions in terms of global completion. The quality of human capital is built by the system higher professional education which determines the potential and success in changing the social structure in technological and economic aspects. The authors examine the topical moments of transforming the personnel provision for the Russian system of higher professional education at the current stage of forming the innovative economic strategy of Russia’s development. Improving the quality of the Russian higher education is at present topical, presenting a strategic task, the solution of which will allow to provide economic stability of our country. The article brings forth the results of investigating the attitude of the Russian people to the Russian and foreign higher education, gives an assessment of the current state of the personnel provision for the Russian higher school. On the basis of these results, the article identifies main drawbacks of the personnel provision for the Russian system of higher professional education and offers directions of increasing the personnel potential of the Russian educational organizations of the higher professional education system. It draws a conclusion that the process of transforming the personnel provision for the higher professional education system in the Russian educational organizations dictates a complex of requirements to the professional role of the faculty members, bringing to the forefront the availability of functions in organizing both the academic and the project and research activities, to formation of educational practices. The present-day faculty member must serve as a consultant, a researcher, a manager of projects, must be «a navigator» in the educational and digital environment.


2020 ◽  
Vol 208 ◽  
pp. 09032
Author(s):  
Yuliya Masalova

In the modern world, many countries recognize that education should act in the interests and for the benefit of the ideas of sustainable development. At the same time, sustainable development itself becomes an integral element of quality education and its key factor. In Russia, the “national strategy of education for sustainable development” has been formed, which provides for a reorientation from ensuring that students have certain knowledge to the ability to analyse real problems and find possible solutions for them. At the same time, the traditional approach to teaching based on the study of specific subjects remains, but it is important to ensure that each student is able to carry out an interdisciplinary analysis of real-life situations. Currently, a project on “Key areas of development of Russian education for achieving the goals and objectives of sustainable development in the education system” until 2035 has been developed and published, which contains indicators that allow us to assess the achievement of the goals set out in it. However, this document hardly presents the level of higher professional education and its contribution to sustainable development. The article will examine the role of Russian higher education in the concept of sustainable development.


2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 405-410
Author(s):  
I. Aliev

This article highlights current issues of the organization of distance learning and its role in the educational policy of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The role of this form of education as a factor in improving the quality of education in higher education is considered. One of the factors for improving the quality of education in the system of higher professional education is the widespread adoption of modern information technologies, including multimedia and virtual. Modern information technologies in combination with pedagogical technologies can significantly increase the effectiveness of the educational process; to achieve a solution to the main problem: the development of cognitive skills of students, critical and creative thinking, the ability to independently construct their knowledge, navigate in the information space.


2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (7) ◽  
pp. 164-167
Author(s):  
V. S. Senashenko

The article is a review of a monograph “The Global Competitiveness of Leading Universities: Models and Methods for Estimating and Forecasting” written by I.P. Boiko, V.G. Khalin, E.M. Anokhina. The book discusses the models and methods for university competitiveness assessment, approaches to the formation of university ranking, specific problems concerning improving of the competitiveness of Russian universities and the system of Russian higher education. The reviewed monograph will be useful to a wide range of readers who are interested in the development of the Russian higher education system.


2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 59-75
Author(s):  
M. A. Golovchin

In 2016-2018 the state in Russia adopted a package of program documents, which implies the transfer of education to the large-scale introduction of digital technologies. This phenomenon has been called “digitalization of education”. In scientific literature, electronization and digitalization are increasingly called one of the institutional traps for the development of Russian universities, since the corresponding institutional environment has not yet been formed due to the forced nature of innovations. As a result, the processes of introducing new technologies into education are still not regulated. Within the framework of the purpose of the study, the manifestations of the trap of electronization and digitalization of Russian higher education were analyzed on the basis of sociological data, and the theoretical modeling of the process of adaptation of educational agents to the institution of digitalization was carried out.In the course of the study, the approaches were summarized that have been developed in discussions on educational digitalization. The article presents the author’s vision of the studied phenomenon as an institutional trap; as well as understanding of the institutional features and characteristics of electronization and digitalization in education.The research method is the analysis of estimates obtained in the course of an expert survey which was conducted by the Vologda Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences among the representatives of the teaching staff of state universities in the Vologda region. In the course of this analysis, the indicators of educational digitalization as an effective innovation were clarified such as an increased accessibility of educational resources; simplification of communication and the process of transferring knowledge from teacher to student; increased opportunities for training specialists for the new (digital) economy; improving the quality of education in universities, etc. Based on the results of the empirical study, it has been determined that the conditions for the development of digitalization in Russian universities are currently ambiguous, which is closely related to the level of competitiveness of the educational organization.The scientific novelty of the research consists in the presentation of an original matrix describing the process of university employees adaptation to the conditions of digital transformation of education. The matrix is proposed on the basis of a sociological analysis of the impact of the trap of electronization and digitalization on the activities of educational agents. The matrix can be taken into account in the practice of higher education management.


Infolib ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-33
Author(s):  
Anastasia Privalova ◽  
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The activity of the modern university library is connected, among other things, with the creation of strong links between different educational and scientific organizations. The goal of such cooperation is to improve the quality and accessibility of Russian higher education, including its digital forms. These problems are solved by a non-profit project of the electronic library system Lan, called Consortium of Network Electronic Libraries (Consortium NEL). It helps universities to optimize costs, increase the number of books and manuals for free. The project already involves 284 universities from Russia and the CIS countries (Kazakhstan, Belarus). Their publications form a book collection of 37 000 textbooks, manuals, workshops and lecture courses on the Lan’s platform. The article describes how the project was created, what is its current state and what are its opportunities. The experience of 284 Russian universities and universities of the CIS countries can be useful for libraries of all educational organizations.


Vestnik NSUEM ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 105-119
Author(s):  
S. G. Strebkov

Planning of receipts and payments is an important element in the work of a higher education institution.The documentary basis of the research is based on domestic methods and documents for justifying planned revenues and expenditures, which are typical for the socialist economic system, the market economy of estimated and normative per capita financing. Separate indicators of General and financial and economic characteristics of financing justifications are systematized in the form of tables. The assessment of changes by group is used to determine the direction of development of the financing justification.


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