Vol 2, No 4 (2013)

The article outlines a topical field of research at the intersection of social, developmental and pedagogical psychology and analyses the tasks and methods of this applied research area. The principal object of investigation is learners’ group consciousness. The authors describe facts, patterns of formation of learners’ attitudes to studies and profession. Potentialities of psychological management in the system of education are assessed.

The article presents the results of the mapping of dialectal lexemes denoting varieties of potato in the Samara region. The map contains data relevant to the question of comparative-typological characterization of dialect vocabulary in the territories which have not been studied from the point of view of geography of dialect words

This article displays the process of designing regional model of virtual museums of scientific schools and scientific communication as the crucial point of the regional science presentation in the virtual space of the region and the country.

The modernization of biological education implies activity approach in the educational process. The article describes the educational-cognitive activity and its main elements as applied to teaching biology at school. Various activities based on the educational-cognitive one are supposed to be use in teaching biology.

In the article the concept and essence of «direkt-kosting» system as elements of management accounting are considered. Advantages and disadvantages of this method of calculation and formation of the financial result are described.

In the article the authors analyse psychological and pedagogical possibilities of the system of health saving education of future teachers which rely on the methodologically important, long-living and invariant knowledge of health.

The article is devoted to possible disturbances of personal professional development and cases of its manifestation as a result of specific conditions of the working process, that people involved in socially-dependent occupations have to face. The idea of personal professional deformation is revealed, as well as the most frequent causes of professional deformation, the problem of job influence on personality and its consequences are dealt with.

The article presents the modern demographic situation in Klyavlinsky area of Samara region. The main demographic characteristics of the territory for the last 6 years are under analysis. The most prominent tendencies in the development of the demographic situation of the area are displayed.

The paper deals with negative influence of office and game programs on indicators of cardiovascular system, situational uneasiness and lability of nervous processes of school students. It has been established that game programs influence is the most intensive and harmful.

The article examines the issues of developing children’s verbal creative potential and describes the components of the educational technology of teaching children of senior pre-school age to compose fairy tales.

The article is devoted to the complex theoretical problem, actualized in the contemporary drama – the ratio of mimetic and antimimetic techniques in literature. The relationship of contemporary drama and modern theatre with «primary reality» is extremely complex and ambiguous, linked to the search not only of a new artistic language, but of a new philosophical understanding of life and death. The author’s reflection is based on the material of the three plays by Nikolay Kolyada, written on the basis of N.V. Gogol’s texts.

Different nationalities have their own fairy tales where certain cultural values are reflected. We analyse an author magic fairy tale – that is “Harry Potter”. This fairy tale can be used as a teaching material for understanding English cultural peculiarities.

In the article some of the biological and ecological characteristics of the rare species of the Samara region flora - Hedysarum grandiflorum Pall ( Fabaceae ) are described. The article provides data on the dissemination of the species in the Samara region, new areas of growth, life strategy, peculiarities of the bank of seeds and sprouts, population structure in nature, seasonal and annual dynamics of ontogenic structure, spatial distribution, growing conditions and other characteristics. Reduction of the number of the studied species in the area is due to the reduction of habitat and bio-ecological characteristics. The species is rare in the region and requires protection.

This article analyzes the characteristics of the relationship between myth and ritual in the context of their cultural manifestations . Mythology and ritual process are interdependent, they give meaning to the various socio-cultural activities. Mythmaking in the ritual process becomes reality and is transformed into an effective social force .

The prepositions " by " and " with " show similarity in meaning when used to denote an agent or an instrument. The present paper is an attempt to demonstrate the influence of the lexical and grammatical characteristics of the passive construction components on the choice of the preposition.

The article is dedicated to the important aspect of the ancient Greek religion – setting of the ritual processes and sacrifices to the deities.

The article looks upon the changes in the aristocratic criticism of the royalty in the late XVII - middle XVIII centuries. The author gives the examples of various forms of aristocratic criticism from demanding of return to old traditions to suggesting that there should be reforms.

The article describes the analysis of the main foreign concepts, revealing the essence of a psychological barrier. Barriers are considered in terms of the psychoanalytic, humanistic and cognitive areas.

The author of the paper reveals the modern methodological approaches to the family values classification. The study presents an analysis of the classification of family values. The author discloses the role of the family and its impact on the family values development.

The article shows the results of the computer analysis of micrographs presenting frontal sections of suprahiazmaticus nucleus in the cat hiporthalamus. It has been established that the nuclear structures under analysis are the monofractal clusters with different fractal dimensions in the range from D =1.688±0.006 to D = 1.909±0.001. The nuclear on the whole is multifractal.

The article reviews some types of the active lecture (lecture visualization, tandem lecture, lecture with planned mistakes) which belong to the range of active and interactive forms of education and when systemically used provide effective formation of graduates’ professional competence.

The article presents one of the latest educational technologies in the modern school – «case-study». It is used to develop senior students’ critical thinking, enables them to make independent information estimations and conclusions on the knowledge they have gained. As a result, the process of general communicative learning operations becomes more effective.

The article explores a model of the destructive force of the tidal influences exerted by the gravitational field of a massive gravitating center on the movement of two bodies, bound gravitationally.

Chemical experiment is crucial in the development of chemical science and training. It is also important in teaching chemistry at school. While teaching at school it is impossible to form ideas about substances and their transformations and make theoretical generalizations without specific monitoring these substances and using a chemical experiment in school.

The article touches upon some problems of cognitive linguistics and concept study, namely, the concept “Human intellect” and its realization in English culture and language. On the basis of lexicographic resources the authors present the keywords of the concept, idioms, make an attempt to model the conceptual field “Human intellect”.

In present-day science innovative technologies are given more and more attention. Not only machine manufacturing, physics, chemistry, but also architecture and planning building design are involved in that. The most affordable and effective way to display design features , static, dynamic characteristics of the devices is computer simulation. One can get to know all the things in the world with the help of small copies, built in three-dimensional image. A copy is a small pro-original of the real subject of the cognitive process, i.e. this is its model.

Development of the organizational culture can be spontaneous and premeditated. The latter is possible if organizational consciousness as well as its main constituents are developed persistently.