The article describes one of the forms of organizing research activities with students. It is noted that the university, guided by the Federal State Educational Standard, creates all conditions in order to form a set of competencies that are necessary for every modern professional.

The article reviews various ways and forms of organizing research work with undergraduates. An attempt is made to reveal the structure of the research competence of NEFU students: this is a meaningful quality of personality and is expressed in the ability and readiness to make non-standard decisions in various life situations. The summarizing method is chosen as the main tool. Summarizing scholarly articles is a kind of modern way of processing and interpreting the material provided. It consists in the following principle of work: compression of the entire scholarly text is accompanied by mental operations such as a text analysis, evaluation and reflection, and comparison. Together with undergraduates, an analysis of a scholarly article was carried out using the summarizing method. In the course of the work, an in-depth analysis of the scholarly article was carried out, the main points were highlighted, the author’s team was scanned, as well as a bibliographic list of scholarly material. The authors of the article note that creative work in the form of summarizing scholaryl articles can be carried out individually, in pairs, and in groups.

The article also provides the results of a survey conducted among students, where they note that the summarizing method increases motivation to analyze scholarly articles, the structure is clear, quite easy to understand and use in work.

In the article, the authors solve the problem of teaching professionally oriented communication in Russian to foreign international students. The paper presents the development of an appropriate linguistic methodological system for teaching written business diplomatic discourse to foreign students studying International Relations. In order to build an effective and efficient model for teaching business discourse to international students, the communicative needs of foreign students were studied, taking into account the realities of the current situation, which made it possible to select the most relevant genres of diplomatic correspondence as the dominant type of activity of a specialist in the field of international relations; experimental training was carried out, which showed that the most effective assimilation of the genre features of diplomatic correspondence and the relevance of the text to a particular genre occurs as a result of systematization and differentiation of features; substantiates the need to create a lexical minimum in the field of international relations; fragments of the self-assessment table and checklists of self-assessment of the achieved results were developed and presented.

The paper concludes that the success of educational and cognitive activity is closely related to the flexibility of the learning system and the possibility of adjustment at all its stages. A necessary component of educational activities in teaching the Russian language as a means of business communication is the control of the gradual formation of communicative intercultural and professional competencies among foreign students.

The article discusses the personality-oriented model of training psychologists, the development of subjectivity in determining individual educational strategies, the importance of university professional orientation and the psychological and pedagogical support in the professional self-determination of students, the structure of the educational process in accordance with the personality-oriented model. The results of a study of the emotional orientation of a person, general activity and leisure preferences, interests and the choice of additional competencies of 1st and 2nd year students of the Institute of Psychology, NEFU are presented.

The article considers a topical issue of using visualization at the lessons of Russian as a foreign language. The authors examine in detail the terms “visual turn”, “visualization” and “visibility”, outlining modern pedagogical situation. The “visual turn” that has taken place in culture has challenged a modern teacher to master new pedagogical technologies for their further use in practical activities. General visualization dictates a choice of the most optimal methods for organizing educational information. In this regard, the article is of an overview nature: the authors review current pedagogical literature, highlighting pedagogical technologies most suitable for the educational process in RFL, and also determining the potential of a visualized non-linear text in the structure of RFL lessons. Based on the results of the analysis, the authors offer a selection of modern pedagogical visualization techniques, describe them and evaluates their applicability in Russian as a foreign language lessons. The authors consider in detail the use of timeline, scribing, storytelling, blogfolio and longread in Russian as a foreign language lessons. After a detailed review of visualization techniques and a description of their application in lessons of Russian as a foreign language, the authors conclude that visualization is effective and has a greater educational potential for non-linear texts in the structure of Russian as a foreign language lessons, and proposes a classification of modern visualization methods based on several parameters. Visual pedagogical techniques are conditionally subdivided into traditional, new and innovative ones according to the time of their appearance, and according to the organization of information they can be static and dynamic. An example of static visualization is graphic organizers, while dynamic visualization is represented by visual narrative, visual storytelling, and educational or authentic videos.

The article is devoted to forming an idea of global trends in the digitalization of education, allowing to determine the trajectories and prospects of improving the quality of Russian education by evaluating and comparing the international and Russian practices. The authors assume that peer-reviewed scientific publications, as centers of knowledge concentration on the subject, most objectively reflect the existing trends and issues in the field of digitalization of education among researchers. This paper presents the results of a bibliographic data analysis of a selected pool of articles published in peer-reviewed scientific journals on Social and Computer Sciences, in order to explore the most relevant topics of 2021-2023 publications related to the implementation of modern IT technologies in education, through consideration of keywords of selected materials. The data source for the analysis of international studies was ScienceDirect, a full-text database of publications of peer-reviewed open access publications; for the study of Russian trends – the scientific digital library Elibrary.ru, the largest Russian information and analytical portal in the field of science. The data on international studies were processed using the VOSviewer software tool for the construction and visualization of bibliometric networks. The scientometric analysis of bibliographic data of the array of selected publications of the given topic allowed to highlight both the main existing areas of research in the study area and promising ones that need to be studied, as well as to select and form the most significant recommendations for achieving a quality level of education. The study revealed a lag in the formation of media education and augmented reality in the Russian Federation, recognized as promising areas, compared to the international progress. 

Proficiency-oriented or communicative approaches specially emphasize the need to analyze the details of close connection of language with its cultural content. It is obvious that every word and every expression has a cultural dimension. Culture is the means, which helps people to communicate with each other. If people were not referring to a commonly agreed upon set of meanings in their interactions, no communication would be possible. Speakers of a language share not only the vocabulary and structure of the language; they share the perceptions of reality represented by that vocabulary and structure. Speakers of different languages have different perceptions of reality; therefore different languages do not have direct correspondence between vocabulary items or grammatical structures. It stands to reason, that learning a second or additional language without learning and understanding the culture in which it is used will not enable the learners to communicate effectively with the native speakers.

The article examines research approaches to the interrelations of two vital elements emphatically necessary for effective communication in a foreign language – the understanding of a foreign culture and the acquisition of vocabulary in a cultural context, which often receive inadequate or inappropriate attention in the classroom setting.

The article is devoted to the study of the process of professional burnout that occurs among social workers. Professional burnout among social workers is a topical issue for studying, since it is the personality of a specialist that is an external resource on which the quality of assistance provided to a client depends. Also, the relevance of the study of professional burnout is due to the specifics of the activities of social workers: constant communication with clients in difficult life situations can contribute to the formation of burnout. Social worker develops emotional and behavioral rigidity, which negatively affects the interaction in the client-social worker dyad, when emotional and professional burnout occurs. The emergence of indifferent behavior in the process of professional activity of a social worker complicates the establishment of a trusting contact with clients, as well as the mechanistic performance of their duties. In this article, the author adheres to the three-factor model for studying professional burnout, proposed by Maslach. Based on a three-factor model, an empirical study examined the phenomenon of professional burnout among social workers in three components: emotional exhaustion, cynicism and depersonalization, a sense of competence or lack of achievement and productivity at work. Social workers were interviewed to identify their professional burnout. The study used the interview method, the Maslach Burnout Inventory questionnaire. Also, the identification of professional burnout among social workers in the framework of an empirical study of the article will make it possible to give some recommendations on the prevention of burnout, since the quality and effectiveness of managing a particular case depends on the personal attitude of a social worker.

Olonkho is one of the relic epics of the peoples of the Great Steppe, which was the “melting pot” of Eurasia, where many dozens of ethnic groups interacted, most of which disappeared forever, others were preserved as relics, finding refuge in the mountains or rafting along the Siberian rivers far to the north. It was they who preserved the great culture of the peoples of the Great Steppe, which, according to many historians, was once very high and original, especially when compared with the culture of the nomads of the 18th-19th centuries. The heroic epos of Olonkho absorbed social and ideological structures associated with temporal and ethnographic “layers” and other fundamental characteristics of the culture of the peoples of the Great Steppe. As a research methodology, approaches are used that have been tested, primarily in the natural sciences and focused on inter- and trans-disciplinary research. As a result, systemic, synergistic, cybernetic, ecological methods and related cognitive (cognitive-theoretical) models have become widespread in many humanities and social sciences. Their use in this work is based on the initial concepts and principles of these sciences. Some of them were developed directly in the humanities and social sciences, as the ego is presented in the works of L. Gumilyov, M. Bakhtin, N. Luhmann, T. Parsons, P. Ricker, and H. Foerster. The texts of Olonkho have a rational architectonics. All plots and their endless branches have logically substantiated algorithms for their development, use standard sets of tools for their interactions. Olonkho is not just a system with several subsystems. Its texts are intertwined with feedbacks of various types, contain numerous singular (special) points that generate synergistic effects, have multi-tiered control, considered from the point of view of second-order cybernetics, and correspond to the most important ecological approaches.

The methodological study of the concept of “complexity” includes the clarification of ideas about its elements, structures, as well as about order, chaos and other concepts related to it. This clarification is also facilitated by classifications and ranges of complexity, as well as examples from the special sciences and their analysis. The problem is that there are no precise and clear definitions of this concept. Many approaches are fuzzy discourses, and there is even a point of view that this area itself presupposes predominantly such approaches. None of the philosophers who created ontological and metaphysical concepts considered complexity as a philosophical category. However, within the framework of related concepts “whole”, “single”, “part”, etc. “complexity” has been explored in many philosophical systems since antiquity. The main direction of the study of complexity is the approaches developed in the special sciences. A methodological approach to the study of complexity is being developed, based on the identification of its ontological status in the context of the processes of self-organization of the world. The ontological properties of “complexity” are analyzed, which makes it possible to form the contours of the methodological approach. In the study of self-organization, the interaction of a thing with the environment and the level of structural balance of the world comes to the fore. Various types of self-organization turn out to be interconnected through feedback, interaction with the environment, relationships with initial conditions, and attractors. It is argued that it is inappropriate to consider complexity as a philosophical category. All types of complexity at all levels of the structural organization of the world naturally find themselves in a network of limiting dynamic equilibria. Any complex behavior starts from an equilibrium (quasi-equilibrium) state and ends with the same state. The complexity within such cells is beyond our consideration. The developed methodology is based on the boundaries of these cells, the ontological status of which is beyond doubt.

The analysis of some drawings by Boris Neustroev – Mandar Uus, famous folk master, original artisan, honorary citizen of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), is carried out. We selected five paintings (drawings) from the Neustroev’s monograph, where the nature of the heart was clearly reflected. The author of the drawings is a recognized connoisseur of the Sakha traditional religious and philosophical worldview; therefore, his works reflect the concepts and motifs of the Sakha traditional worldview. In this work, on the basis of the drawings, we identified some philosophical relationships that express the connection of the heart with the corresponding spiritual categories of the traditional religious and philosophical worldview and the material objects of the world. The drawings, together with the identified relationships, in turn, are analyzed from the point of view of the concepts and meanings of Agni Yoga. The Teaching of Agni Yoga was published in the Russian language in 1924-1938 by the great Russian philosopher Elena Roerich. Based on the analysis, semantic parallels with the properties of the heart from the point of view of the teachings of Agni Yoga were revealed.