Vol 22, No 2 (2020)

The authors consider the phenomenon of contemporary art as an interdisciplinary scientific problem, which was discussed at a conference in Samara from September 17 to 20, 2019. The program of the scientific event, the main directions of work, and information about participants are described. The content of the reports is presented, the main trends in the study of developing, educational, environmental, social-consolidating opportunities of contemporary art are noted. An interdisciplinary methodological approach to the use of works by contemporary authors, new means of expression, materials and art technologies in solving urgent problems of higher education, training teachers in accordance with the requirements of state standards is outlined. Based on the scientific results of the conference, information gaps of the problem were identified, corresponding to the ways of searching for new knowledge.

The article is focused on the features of application of multimedia technologies in the process of learning a foreign language in a technical University. The author gives detailed definitions, describes the practical goals of mastering foreign language speech using the Internet. The article also discusses in detail the types of Web quests and the features of educational Web quests.

Subject of the article: practice-oriented approach in the educational process of a law University. The object of the article: the educational process of a law University. The purpose of the project: to identify the problems of transformation of the educational process of the law University and find ways to solve them. Methodology: the competence approach has allowed to identify problems in the educational process of law schools related to changes in the educational paradigm; the practice-oriented approach and integration of legal and moral phenomena helped to identify ways to solve problems by activating and improving the practice of legal clinics. Results: considering the Institute of legal clinics as a means of solving the problems of the educational process of the University allowed us to determine the factors that affect the quality of legal education and form the professional competence of future lawyers. Scope of the results: the study of legal clinics as an effective means of training legal personnel contributes to the improvement and improvement of the quality of legal education. The inclusion of students ‘ work in the legal clinic in the production practice, as one of its forms, helps the student to practice directly in the aspect of legal counseling, which forms their skills of competent building relationships with the client and is an important factor in preventing emotional burnout. The work of students in the legal clinic also plays an important role from the point of view of sociology, since students can get information about the statistics of client requests, which will allow them to use this data in sociological research. Understanding the empirical material obtained in the course of legal consulting can be used for writing master’s and PhD theses. That is, the range of application of the results of students ‘ work in the legal clinic is quite wide and can be used both in one area, but vertically (at different educational levels); and in different professional branches horizontally (in law, law enforcement, sociology, psychology, etc.). Conclusion: the scientific novelty of the study consists in a comprehensive analysis of materials accumulated in the practice of legal clinics and reinterpreted in the aspect of their representation as a form of industrial practice. The positive experience of students of SF MSPU in the legal clinic described in the article demonstrates the effectiveness of this direction and proves the effectiveness of including the Institute of the legal clinic in the educational process of the law University as a form of industrial practice.

Modernization of the national education system is determined by new requirements for the quality of higher education. The quality of education is the aim and result of higher education institutions, and the responsibility for the quality of students’ education in academic disciplines falls on the lecturers. In the article, the pedagogical category “quality of education” is considered as an organized process of interaction between the lecturer and students, which ensures the formation of professional abilities and significant personal qualities. Training quality monitoring becomes an innovative function of a University lecturer, which involves constant monitoring and evaluation of students’ learning results in order to design an individual method of learning the discipline. The article highlights the problem of the lecturer’s readiness to conduct intramural monitoring, which is due to the need to improve the quality of students’ training in academic disciplines. It is proved that intramural monitoring of the quality of students’ training in an academic discipline involves a continuous process of monitoring the development of professionally important personal qualities of students in order to make pedagogically appropriate management decisions to correct and create favorable conditions for their professional development. The formation of lecturers’ readiness to conduct intramural monitoring of the quality of lecturers’ education should take place in the system of professional development.

This article analyzes the image of Soviet Russia that had been formed by The «New York Times», one of the most influential US newspapers. The research uncovered three media’s key points of view on Soviet Russia during the period from 1918 to 1922: the “demonic” image, the “victim” image, and the “neutral” image. Each of the above mentioned images can be interpreted in different ways, therefore we decided to divide them into subcategories that will help in explaining the images all-around. The concept attributed to the “demonic” image involves the reports of the newspaper on certain events in Russia in which they comment on and criticize the Bolsheviks’ tyranny and inhumanity. The New York Times notes that they turned the once great Russian Empire into a country mired in famine, civil war, and havoc. This image can be explored through the following subcategories: 1) the inability of the Soviet government to deal with the Civil war and other internal territorial problems on its own; 2) incompetence in preventing the famine of 1921-1922 and helping the victims. The “victim” image belonging to Soviet Russia prevailed on The New York Times’ pages during the pinnacle of the Povolzhye famine of 1921-1922. The “neutral” image brought almost nothing to picture the Red Scare that allegedly radiated from the country, its government, and its people; yet it equally deserves our attention. This image was used by the media to specify the similarities that the Russians and other nations shared, and to point out Russia’s desire to work with other countries for the common good of the world.

The article discusses the issues of the systemacy of terms representation in the applied models of academic knowledge organization. The linguistic principles of modeling the academic knowledge of a particular domain as a terminological network and its organization in the data base for its extraction while working with the expert system are defined. The step-by-step algorithm of knowledge systemization and the related data is described based on the example of the editor regime of the developed expert system. The variants of academic concepts correlation are considered. The article also reasons the significance of differentiation of the categories of academic concepts and the types of systemic relations between them, the indication of the grammatical forms of terms, the direction of the vectors of the systemic relations and other information for the accuracy and completeness of data extraction.

This article discusses the phenomenon of the European festival of academic musical art from a historical perspective. A brief analytical review of the history of European holiday culture and the emergence of the festival movement is presented. The basic principles and substantive aspects of the music festival are determined.

Subject of the article: The article discusses the concept of theatricality in literary theory. The object of the article: In contrast to a traditional definition of theatricality as a set of theater-related features (dramatism, visuality, spectatorship and acting) which is reflected in Barthes’s classic formulation «theater-minus-text», the author argues that theatricality is indeed an immanent constituent of the structure of a literary and dramatic text. The goal of the research: Using fragments from Shakespeare’s plays the author shows how the nonverbal and «purely theatrical» means of expression including gestures, body positions, theatrical costumes, dumb shows, mute scenes and pantomimes manifest themselves in the main text through verbal reactions of the characters (similar to descriptive meta-textual stage remarks). The author uses the term «textual theatricality» to describe this of indivisible unity of the main text and meta-text. Research methodology: Taking into account the dichotomy between nature and culture in the phenomenon of theatricality, the author takes an interdisciplinary approach. The article argues that mimicry could be a biological prototype of theatricality. Results: The article offers a formula describing the elementary generalized model of mimicry in terms of theatrical roles: «А» (the mimic) in front of «В» (the dupe, who becomes prey - species being deceived) plays a role of «С» (the model - species being mimicked). The author argues that a similar formal model based on the relationship between roles is applicable for the description of a «meta-play» as a key element of theatricality: «А» in front of «В» plays a role of «С», where «А» is a character (equivalent to the «mimic» in mimicry), «В» is a spectator (equivalent to the «prey») and «С» is «someone else» «the third person», «the other» (equivalent to the «model»). The article discusses a rhetorical structure «text within a text» which lies behind a meta-theatrical situation in which a character of the play, along with the main role, plays a meta-literary role of the author and writer, reproducing the creative process of writing within the main text. Hamlet’s meta-role as dramatist and playwright is described. Field of application: Literary studies, literary theory, Shakespeare studies. Conclusion: theatricality as a notion of poetics can be defined as an immanent property of literary text. I would like to thank Dan Whitman and Svetlana M. Gracheva for discussions and helpful suggestions.