In modern pedagogy, as a result of the transition to training according to federal educational standards, active attention is paid to the personal qualities of students, the formation of competencies that will help them adapt to rapidly changing environmental conditions. This issue is relevant at the current stage of training the younger generation and contributes to solving the main requirement of the new standards (FGOS) “teach to learn”. This article discusses the possibilities of web quest technologies to increase the cognitive activity of students. The pedagogical conditions for using web quest technologies in English classes are highlighted, the stages of creating web quest technologies are defined.

The article briefly analyzes the life path in science and the professional activities of the prominent educational psychologist N. V. Kuzmina. She is the founder of such an innovative field of human science as acmeology for the development of professionalism of adult specialists. She implemented this innovative discipline based on the study of the work of such main subjects of the education system as a kindergarten teacher, a school teacher, a master of industrial training, a teacher and a university dean. The article is the first to analyze, from the standpoint of subject-activity and institutional-personological approaches, the outstanding role of N. V. Kuzmina in studying the development of abilities, pedagogical talent and talent of teachers in the education system. The decisive creative contribution of N.V. Kuzmina and her scientific school to the creation of the foundations and development of acmeology technologies in modern human science is shown.

The article presents the results of a study to determine the conditions for the effective involvement of older adolescents and young people in search activities as a means of their social hardening. The implementation of the program for the inclusion of minors in this socially significant activity expands the range of formed readiness to solve life tasks, problems, expands the educational potential of the extracurricular process and acts as a means capable of objectively contributing to reducing risks in the youth environment.

The article showed the essential side of V. P. Zinchenko’s scientific activity — the creation and support of new directions in science. The role of V. P. Zinchenko in the creation of domestic ergonomics as an independent science and the invitation of E. G. Yudin to participate in its creation, the importance of V. P. Zinchenko’s leadership of F. E. Vasilyuk’s dissertation research for the creation of understanding psychotherapy by him, support for B. G. Meshcheryakov’s work on the logical and semantic analysis of L. S. Vygotsky’s cultural and historical theory are considered. The importance of V. P. Zinchenko’s initiative for the creation of a manual on ergonomics of the Comecon countries and its significant role in the scientific career of the author of the article is shown.

The article provides a historical analysis of adoption and spread of Christianity (the Christianization) as a state religion in Armenia during the reign of the Armenian king Tiridates III the Great (A. D. 287–330) and in the days of St. Gregory the Illuminator (Grigory Partev), the first enlightener and spiritual mentor of the Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church, as well as relation of the religion to military service, the role of the church and the actions of clergymen in different periods of history in the army of Armenia. The article discloses formation of military spiritual service, forms and methods of activities of regimental chaplains both in peacetime and in wartime, aimed at carrying out activities that contribute to the formation of persistent moral-combat and moral-spiritual qualities among military personnel. Examples from the Holy Book in relation to military service are given.

The purpose of the study is to develop organizational and pedagogical conditions for professional development of teachers in the prevention of hidden social orphanhood of students. Research methods: surveys, self-observation, self-assessment, analysis of diary entries and social passports of families. The expediency of implementing the development of professional skills of a teacher through “learning in activity”, involving teachers in research, project, directly pedagogical, advisory, etc. work is substantiated. The conclusion is made about the effectiveness of parallel work to improve the teacher’s qualifications and solve the tasks of preventing social orphanhood.

The article discusses features of theatrical activity. The influence of involvement in theatrical activity on the psychological characteristics of students, their emotional intelligence and psychological well-being is investigated. With the help of Pearson’s correlation analysis, the relationship of the parameters of emotional intelligence with the scales of psychological well-being, as well as the relationship of the above parameters with the frequency of theater attendance, were found. Additionally, changes in the emotional states on different stages of the show trial and intragroup relationships dynamics were studied.

In recent decades, the state educational policy in Russia has changed markedly. A unified state exam has been introduced in secondary schools. The training of specialists in universities was replaced by bachelor’s and master’s degrees, destroying Soviet educational programs. A significant part of face-to-face forms of meaningful interactions have been replaced by information technologies and distance learning. All these transformations are often justified by references to the theory of cultural and historical development of higher mental functions and the psychological theory of activity. At the same time, the results of “optimization” in educational institutions of the country come into direct contradiction with these theoretical approaches and correspond to naive hypotheses that “the brain inside the brain generates the psyche with the help of the brain, based on the processing of information coming through the senses”.

The article presents a new understanding of the process of education in secondary vocational education. The features of secondary vocational education are revealed, which allow us to talk about conditions that significantly distinguish educational activities in professional educational organizations from similar work in schools. The basic principles of the organization of students’ labor activity are presented, the connection of the processes of growing up with the participation of students in social activities is shown. Promising directions for improving education in secondary vocational education are proposed.

В статье анализируются значимые вехи истории изучения в российской педагогической психологии образовательной среды развития учащихся, выделяются ее основные модели, а также показано их значение для оптимизации учебно-воспитательного процесса формирования мышления и личности в современном образовательном пространстве.

The article presents the results of an all-Russian study of civic-patriotic values in a modern school. The psychological and pedagogical conditions for the formation of patriotic and civic values have been analyzed. In order to find the factors that determine this situation, an analysis of the patriotic values of schoolchildren was carried out, including the following sections: objects of identification; image of the Motherland; life goals and patriotic values; life position and socially significant activity; preferences and plans.

The article provides a justification for the need for phased design of the electronic educational environment of a military university at three qualitative stages corresponding to the qualitative stages of the cadet’s training: reproductive, productive, postproductive. The identified didactic conditions for the effectiveness of designing electronic educational resources in a higher military school are disclosed.

The article examines the main features of education as a complex and differentiated process based on the influence of the environment, activity, communication and related to learning, socialization, identification and self-identification of a person by the example of an appeal to the peculiarities of the education system in mythopoetic societies. This article, being a continuation (Part 2) of an earlier study of the main features of the education system of mythopoetic societies, focuses readers’ attention on the folding of the process of identification and self-identification in the educational reality of age groups. It is shown that upbringing, which is largely synonymous with the concept of nurturing, is characteristic of a number of mythopoetic societies and has methodological significance in modern conditions, since it allows us to identify several significant moments for modern concepts of upbringing and education.

Today and always, the meaning of education is orientation to the child’s personality as the highest value and meaning of pedagogical activity, recognition and respect for his ability of self-determination and self-development. The article reveals the following approaches to the process of education: humanistic (creating conditions for the development and self-development of a child’s personality), activity-based (education requires not just activity, but joint activity of children with adults, where participants can show their subjective qualities), co-existential (education in a coexistential child-adult community) hermeneutical (transition from “knowledge” attitude of the teacher to “understanding” one, when the teacher seeks to understand the meaning of a particular action of a child, to comprehend the inner meaning), systemic (logic of research in education).

It was found how the self-perception of adolescents changes in the process of media activity, and other effects of the development of adolescents in this process were identified, namely the formation of an adolescent community as an imaginary, and on this basis a real community, organization of teamwork based on self-determination, control over specific functions and tasks of team members to create the final media product. By media activity, we mean a special kind of human activity, characterized by the use of specific media tools and the construction of a special media space, which any sphere of reality can become. Any activity addressed to an imaginary community (according to Anderson) can be considered as a mea-activity. For example, the creation of a literary and any other work of art, shooting a video, etc. The addressee is implicit, he is in the imagination, and the author must look at himself from the position of an imaginary addressee.

The article analyzes the scientific and organizational activity of one of the leading specialists in this field, Honorary Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the Moscow Branch of the Russian Psychological Society (RPO) D. B. Bogoyavlenskaya against the background of the evolution of the study of thinking, abilities, giftedness, creativity in Russian human studies. The relevance of the article is determined by the need to study the history of the Russian psychology of creativity and determine the contribution to its development of D. B. Bogoyavlenskaya with the participants of the scientific school of diagnostics of abilities and development of giftedness and creativity created by her. The novelty of the article lies in the fact that for the first time in the institutional and personological plan, the periodization of D. B. Bogoyavlenskaya’s life creation was constructed and a system—holistic analysis of the logic of the development of her cognitive research and scientific and social activities was carried out according to the 30-year leadership of the Moscow Branch of the RPO, the Laboratory of Psychodiagnostics of Creative Abilities of the Psychological Institute of RAO and Inter.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the use of innovative pedagogical technologies in the formation of patriotic education of students in the framework of educational and extracurricular activities. The author traces the formation of the concept of “pedagogical technology”, considers approaches to determining its essence in different time periods. The article examines the characteristic features of pedagogical technology. The concepts of “patriotic education»” “patriotism”, “citizenship” are defined. The historical information about the origins of the formation of patriotic education in our state is presented. The practical experience of using new pedagogical technologies in the formation of patriotism in modern Russian schools is summarized. The features of the use of pedagogical technologies for the formation of patriotic education in the educational and extracurricular activities of students are clarified. The conclusion is made about the need to find new effective ways to form patriotic education in school.

The problem of increasing the level of aggression and anxiety in adolescents is considered. The methodological and methodological basis of the work was: a scale of personal anxiety of students aged 10–16 (A. M. Prikhozhan), a methodology for assessing the level of aggression of Bass — Perry (adaptation by S. N. Enikolopov, N. P. Tsibulsky), Toronto alexithymic scale, semi-projective Wagner hand test technique. The techniques were used to carry out complex diagnostics and control the results of the correctional program “Face of Aggression”. The participants of the study in the amount of 26 people (two training groups) had a statistically significant decrease in anger after undergoing the “Face of Aggression” program.

The article examines the historical and pedagogical prerequisites of education and the development of the methodological activities of teachers of higher education in general, and higher military school in particular. The paper highlights the most significant stages of the formation of the scientific category under study, both as an important component of the pedagogical system and as an independent pedagogical process aimed at improving the pedagogical skills and professionalism of the teaching staff.

The article provides an analytical review of the impact of human capital (i.e. creative ideas and scientific achievements) of the school of the leader of Soviet psychology of the mid-twentieth century S. L. Rubinstein on the formation and development of the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The initiative significance of the idea of the Deputy director of the Institute of Philosophy of the USSR Academy of Sciences S. L. Rubinstein about the need to create an Institute of Psychology in the academic system and the institutional promotion of the project developed by him is shown. The personology of students and their role in its organizational implementation in the IP RAS is characterized. For the first time, the constructive contribution to the development of the IP RAS of both participants of this school and scientists of other institutions in cooperation with psychologists of the classical and modern periods of Russian human studies has been systematically summarized.