SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF FACTORS INFLUENCING CHESS EDUCATION

Armenia has adopted chess in primary school programs since 2011, and different types of research have been conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of this implementation. One of the questions to be addressed after chess adoption is: “What are the main and contextual factors of the effectiveness of that implementation?”, or “How these factors have been changed?”. The article tries to answer those questions by conducting correlational research on a representative sampling of Armenian students, their parents and teachers.

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ONLINE TEACEHR TRAININGS IN THE FIELD OF MEDIA EDUCATION

Today, the field of education is considered to be one of the important links that educates and brings up not only students, but also raises many demands and problems in the field of teacher certification and training. Educational changes, in turn, provide for the revision of curricula and the introduction of various media tools that allow the current conditions to be implemented not only on existing but also on remote platforms. To conduct education on these platforms, teachers participate in and train in seminars, webinars and courses at various educational institutions. As a result, they can easily switch from one platform to another and integrate into the new classroom gauge. They are able to participate in these trainings and a number of educational programs through the online platform, which is wider and more numerous than in the present case. The online platform is rapidly stabilizing its position in the field of education, already recording its success and effectiveness.

OVERCOMING OF AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR OF PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN THROUGH FAIRY TALE THERAPY

The article provides definitions of aggression, the causes of its occurrence, as well as fairy tale therapy as a means of overcoming aggressive manifestations. A research was conducted to study the psychological characteristics of the aggressive behaviour of younger schoolchildren. The formative linear experiment was used. The method for diagnosing aggression Bass-Darky and Rosenzweig's test of measuring the aggressiveness were carried out. In the aggressive behavior of primary school children is dominated by negative and indirect aggression; verbal and physical aggression are moderately manifested; auto-aggression, insult and suspicion are weakly expressed. More than half of primary schoolchildren have a high level of aggressiveness. In the vast majority of pupils, aggressive reactions are directed to the environment, that is, the orientation of aggression is extrapunitive. In about a quarter of pupils, the orientation of aggression is impunitive, for what happened they attribute the blame to the situation. The weakest expression has the intrapunitive orientation of aggression, when the child considers himself responsible for the event. To overcome the aggressive manifestations of primary schoolchildren, a training program was used, in which therapeutic tales and training exercises were included. If before applying a training program for overcoming agressiveness, aggressive reactions of most younger schoolchildren were directed at others, and they considered others to be responsible for solving the problem, then after implementing the training program the results of the retest show that there has been a sharp increase in the rate of intrapunitive aggression. That is, children began to count, that the solution of the problem depends more on the person, and in case of failure, the person should blame not the other, but own identity. Therapeutic fairy tales are an effective way to overcome the aggressive behaviour of children in educational institutions.

THE “CORRESPONDENCE” OF NICOGHAYOS ADONTS

The letters of famous people are national and universal-sounding events. This is a reality from antic times, the manifestations of which are also present in the ancient, medieval, as well as new and modern Armenian literature. We have in our possession 135 letters of the internationally renowned byzantinist, armenologist, philologist and historian Nicoghayos Adonts, written from 1893 to 1940. The 135 letters of Nicoghayos Adonts, with corresponding notes, were prepared to publication by historian Petros Hovhanissian, who devoted his whole life to the study and publication of Adont’s scientific heritage. The 7th volume of the works of the famous scientist is dedicated to these letters. Adonts’ “Correspondence” contains numerous letters addressed to N. Marr, N. Akinian, G. Hovsepian, T. Gushakian, K. Zarian and others, the theses in which are basic and can still be used by linguists, critics, politicians, historians and people involved in science in general.

NORMATIVE REGULATION OF LIFE AND HEALTH PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS

The article discusses some philosophical issues of life and health. The content of bioethics is not limited to finding out which approaches to solving problems related to human life and health are more effective, liberal or conservative. Conservatism stems from the basic premise that human life is an absolute, indisputable value. From the point of view of bioethics, the discovery of the humanitarian potential of liberal values ??is possible only in the conditions of avoiding the extremes of moral relativism, one-sided naturalism, as well as establishing a reasonable balance between conservative and liberal values.

PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL RISKS OF POLYCULTURAL EDUCATION IN ARMENIA

The article examines the features, opportunities and pedagogical risks of polycultural education in the educational environment of Armenia. It is substantiated that the problem of polyculturalism has long gone beyond the scope of its study in the context of a multinational region and is considered from the point of view of a culturological approach. Determining the characteristics and possibilities of polycultural education makes it necessary to take into account the undesirable consequences caused by the existing risks. The main risks of polycultural education are the following: strategic risks, personal risks, psychological risks, communication risks, sociocultural risks.

SENSIBLE DIAGNOSES FOR SENSIBLE CLINICIANS: THE NEW EDITION OF THE PSYCHODYNAMIC DIAGNOSTIC MANUAL (PDM-2)

The article analyzes psychodynamic clinical models focused on clinical case formulation and treatment planning, offers practitioners empirically grounded and clinically validated alternatives to such personality maps as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). The PDM-2 diagnostic model aims to provide a systematic description of healthy functioning and personality disorders; individual profiles of mental functioning (including patterns of relationships with other people, understanding and expressing feelings, overcoming stress and anxiety, regulating impulses, observing one's own emotions and behavior and forming moral judgments, etc.); as well as symptom patterns, including differences in each person's subjective experience of symptoms and in the subjective experiences of treating therapists.

THE SOCIAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL ASPECTS OF ACMEOLOGY

Acmeology is an anthropological science, which studies person's spiritual, intellectual, physical, as well as individual, personal and professional development features, factors and patterns during his life maturity. The article describes the methodological bases of acmeology, its development stages, branches, scientific-practical problems related to the improvement of a person during his professional activity and the highest manifestation of his vital potential. Theoretical and practical issues of andragogy are interpreted based on the analysis of social survey data.

HOPE AS THE PROVISION FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL SECURITY OF THE PERSON AND THE SOCIETY

The article discusses various approaches to understanding the function of hope in human life. The author attempts to analyze the functional orientation of hope based on its types. The rationale for the study of hope as a multidimensional formation in the context of human life and person's attitude to life is presented. The paper analyzes the conception of hope among Russians, discusses the relationship between different types of hope and valence (positive-negative) of evaluations of different stages of one's life course. It is emphasized that high level of hopelessness combined with negative attitude towards life reduces the psychological security of a person.

SOCIAL-PEDAGOGICAL PERSPECTIVES OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRIMARY SCHOOLCHILDREN’S ABILITY OF SELF-ESTEEM

The article discusses methodological matters related to the ability of self-esteem in the primary school age. The factors for and methods of the development of the ability of self-esteem in the teaching process as well as the potential of school subjects have been analysed. Surveys have been conducted among teachers concerning their engagement in the development of schoolchildren’s self-esteem and a sample lesson has been designed for developing the ability of self-esteem at school.