The purpose of the study described in the article is to determine the anthropological components that affect the quality of higher education. In the course of the study, a series of pedagogical experiments were organized in universities of medical, engineering, pedagogical profiles on the degree of manifestation of anthropological components in the classroom. The results of the study show that not only digital, but also traditional learning should be organized taking into account anthropological components (personal, empathic, reflective, cognitive, interactive, integrative, attractive, synergistic): only a person can educate a person, form a personality.

В статье представлено исследование понятия и сущности толерантности и этнической идентичности. Рассмотрены различные определения феноменов толерантности и этнической идентичности. Раскрыты условия развития толерантности и основные этапы формирования толерантного отношения. Проанализирована взаимосвязь толерантности и этнической идентичности, а также взаимосвязь этнической толерантности и компонентов этнической идентичности. Результаты нашего исследования позволили выявить взаимосвязь между уровнем толерантности и компонентами этнической идентичности личности.

The problem of formation of professional readiness of students remains relevant for the higher education system. The cognitive component, as one of the components of professional readiness, is characterized by the amount of knowledge (breadth, depth, consistency), the style of thinking, the formation of skills and abilities necessary for a future specialist. The article is devoted to the use of concept maps as an effective method of forming professional knowledge in higher education. The article examines the sequence of introduction of concept maps into the learning process, formulates requirements for the development of concept maps, describes the results of systematic use of concept maps in the formation of the cognitive component of professional readiness of students, the features of using the method in group work, the evaluation system of concept maps developed by students.

Based on a qualitative survey, the paper draws a picture of graduates’ selfperception in conditions of high-speed information exchange. The study raises the issue of how to improve today’s educational efficiency viewed as a mechanism for the reproduction of a new subject of historical action. Such a formulation of research problem allows us to draw attention to the consolidated Nonwestern potential for improving the quality of modern educational process. The potential under consideration is largely based on the hitherto neglected scope of intangible capital linked to untapped digital possibilities of multiculturalism. This implies not a direct, mindless copying of Western educational standards, but a synthesis of the best in the world education systems related to our own rich pedagogical traditions of higher education. The obtained results and conclusions can be helpful in fine tuning the interaction between teachers and trainees in national higher education.

The article discusses the formation of professional and legal culture of cadets of educational organizations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in conjunction with its structural components. Among the structural components of the formation of professional and legal culture of cadets, the following stand out: motivational, cognitive, activity and reflexive.

The research of cognitive and metacognitive components of professional thinking of the students (n = 109) of the “man – man” type of jobs, as compared to value orientations, is presented in the article. Cognitive and metacognitive peculiarities are differently directed and have multiple meaning associations with the system of values. The potential of cognitive component of professional thinking is presented by various predominant qualities, while the potential of metacognitive component is characterized by different levels of development of metacognition.