The article actualizes the problem of preparing high school students to choose a military specialty in current political situation; semiotic and technical aspects of diagnostics are revealed, components, indicators and criteria for evaluating the phenomenon under study are specified.

The article discusses the results of a study of social representations of the life path, expressed through metaphors among students and respondents who completed their studies at a higher educational institution. The study involved 267 respondents aged 17 to 55 years (31 men and 236 women). Based on the conducted research, continuums of social representations of the life course were identified and substantiated at the theoretical level, and in accordance with them, the author’s approach to the analysis of data obtained in metaphorical essays was proposed. Data were obtained indicating the presence of specific social representations of students expressed through metaphors.

The article presents an iterative process of studying the search for ways to improve the effectiveness of education in the field of life safety and one of its results is a structural and functional model for the formation of a safety culture in children of preschool and primary school age. The parameters and criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of educational activities aimed at the formation of a safety culture at the levels of preschool and primary general education are identified. The description and results of diagnostic measures carried out as part of experimental work on approbation of the author’s model are given. The conclusion is made about its effectiveness, the revealed regularities.

The article analyzes the characteristic features of changes in the functioning of the pedagogical systems of the military units of the Russian Guard in the period from 2017 to the present. The problematic and contradictory nature of these changes is noted. The positive and negative aspects of solving educational tasks are revealed. Ideas are put forward about the organization of a criterion system for evaluating the pedagogical system of a military unit.

The article publishes the results of an experimental study aimed at improving the efficiency of the process of upbringing of social activism of students of modern universities, using the example of FSBEI HE “Kaluga State University named after K. E. Tsiolkovski” (KSU), Kaluga Branch of the Russian State Agrarian University — Moscow Agricultural Academy K. A. Timiryazev, Kaluga branch of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation.

The role of education in the education system and pedagogy, the return of education to the education system at all levels is the basis of the quality of education. One of the main aspects of educational activities is work related to educational relations, as well as its methodological support. The work program of education should reflect the justification for the organization of educational work, its forms and methods, the infrastructure of the scale of the university, its expected assessment within the framework of a consistent strategy for the development of education.

The didactic process at the university combines training, education and development of students; these processes are complementary, focused on a holistic image of the result; the essence of the triune educational process in the object-subject transformation of the student, which is facilitated by the educational environment.

The article considers the conditions for the development of innovation as a professionally important quality of the adviser to the director of education and interaction with children’s public associations — a new position in the education system. The social significance of the problem is connected with the need to develop an effective system of personnel management of an educational institution and the implementation of innovative programs in the field of education. shown that the psychological phenomenon of the innovativeness of the adviser’s personality can be assessed by conducting psychological diagnostics in order to identify and further take into account the individual characteristics of advisers, namely the level of development of key characteristics of the innovativeness of the personality, such as creativity, self-organization, managerial skills, emotional intelligence, communicative control; conducting a series of educational project “The Path of Innovation”, including interactive forms training (problem lectures, business games, brainstorming, communication training, master classes with invited specialists).

The relevance of this article lies in the fact that a modern university is a unique educational environment of interaction between the participants of the educational process. The development of social activity, leadership qualities, emotional intelligence, creative skills is used to form social responsibility of students. In many respects this process depends on successful social adaptation of first-year students. This paper reflects the criteria and levels of social adaptation of freshmen in extracurricular activities.

The article describes a model of individualization of foreign language teaching of cadets, the implementation of which is carried out in the natural conditions of the educational process of a military university in order to increase the level of foreign language training of each cadet, taking into account his abilities, basic training and requirements for the content of foreign language communicative competence in the specialty.