This article attempts to resolve the contradictions between the challenges of a higher education institution modernisation and the level of methodological competence. The author analyses methodological problems and the peculiarities of higher education methodology defining the notion of «methodological competence» and determining its hierarchy, structure, and assessment criteria.
The article considers the effects of the application of traditional (pre-multimedia) instructional media in UK higher education institutions. The effects of the following media are considered: audio-visual; traditional computer; interactive video; early multimedia. A conclusion is drawn about the necessity to carefully integrate instructional media into the educational context.
The article emphasises the need for the introduction of the «development of vocational aptitude» discipline into professional training. The author focuses on vocational aptitude for transport engineering and management.
This article stresses the need for the training of a «moral sociologist», outlines the Weltanschauung of a sociologist, and determines the scope of the methodological and world view levels of their value system.
This article presents the preconditions and individual concepts of the development of creative mathematical training at a higher education institution.
This article explains the need for the development of the «ethical-pedagogical activity» notion and justifies the order of the usage of the terms «ethical» and «pedagogic». The author distinguishes the standards of ethical attitude and the standards of pedagogical attitude and analyses the peculiarities of ethical-pedagogical activity.
The article provides a rationale of the expedience and necessity of the amplification of professional functions of social humanitarian sphere workers with the new function of the cross-cultural mediator. The cross-cultural mediator professiogram is revealed on the basis of the professiographic approach.
In the present research, the components of readiness making the maintenance of professional competence of the future teachers of chemistry in the field of ecological education is defined: is complete-semantic, as comprehension of unity of the purposes of ecological and chemical education; is substantial-remedial; motivationstrong-willed; socially moral. Based on the analysis of complete system of training of students of a specialty «Chemistry» the description of pedagogical conditions of education of the presented components is give.