Hardware and projective research techniques in neuroeducation: issues and perspectives in application

Цифровая трансформация и переход от компетентностного к метапредметному подходу в обучении требуют освоения новых объективных исследовательских методов в образовании. Когнитивные исследования, в том числе использующие высокотехнологичные методики и нейротехнологии, повышают исследовательский и учебный потенциал образовательной организации. Digital transformation and the transition from a competence-based to a meta-subject approach in education require the development of new objective research techniques in education. Cognitive research done with high-tech techniques and neurotechnologies contributes to the research and educational capacity of an educational organization.

Developing a Sustainable and Inclusive Northern Knowledge Ecosystem in Canada

A knowledge ecosystem is a collection of individuals and organizations who are involved in the creation, management and dissemination of knowledge, both in the form of research and lived experience and teaching. As is the case with ecosystems more generally, they thrive on variation and diversity, not only in the types of individuals and organizations involved but also in the roles that they play. For many decades, the northern knowledge ecosystem in Canada was dominated and controlled by Western scholarly approaches and researchers based in academic institutions outside the North. More recently, this research landscape has started to change, largely in response to the efforts of Indigenous peoples and northerners to realize greater self-determination and self-government. Not only have these changes led to the development of research and educational capacity in the North, but they have also changed the way that academic researchers engage in the research process. The keys to maintaining the future sustainability and health of the northern knowledge ecosystem will be encouraging diversity and balance in the research methodologies and approaches used to generate knowledge about the North and ensuring that the needs and priorities of northern and Indigenous peoples are recognized and addressed in the research process.

Reproductive Attitudes and Behaviour of Intelligentsia (Based on Sociological Survey in the Ivanovo Region)

The article deals with present day demographic challenges in the depressed region of the Russian Federation, which has been demonstrating low birth rates for over 30 years. At the same time, the region has its social and cultural features, historical traditions, scientific and educational capacity which, taken together, to a large extend also determine the reproductive behavior of the population. Relying on the empirical data, the authors are attempting to explain this contradiction and to reveal the approaches, which will help to improve the situation. Methodology of complex sociological analysis, combination of quantitative and qualitative procedures helped to deeply study the grounds for and factors of reproductive preferences and behavior of the intelligentsia. For the first time such methods as survey and focus group interviews have been systematically implied to research the reproductive preferences and behavior; an on-line survey motivating childbirth is suggested. The results of the research prompted the necessity to create a separate field in addressing the reproductive issues; the field is closely connected to such medical factors as training specialists in men’s reproductive health. The Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation has supported the ideas of Ivanovo medical intelligentsia. In the article the present day agenda is summarized, the trends of institutional support development for breakthrough national objectives in the sphere of demography are outlined. One of the challenges in the demography management is the necessity to constantly modify the processes depending on the current regulatory environment and, what is more important, on the level of participation of regional intelligentsia in national demographic objectives. The conclusion presents a wide range of ideas on improvement of programs, projects and practices of demographic policy.