No 2 (2018)

The theory and practice of basketball consider marginally the issues related to the technical training of young basketball players taking into account the profiles of functional asymmetry. Often, in practice, coaches train for the result using only the dominant hand, while the non-dominant hand performs only auxiliary actions. However, it is worth noting that in game sports, such as handball, volleyball, and basketball, the ability to perform technical actions equally well in both directions, allows achieving high results. But in order to use equally the right and left hands, and to be an all-around sportsman, regular work is necessary.

The goal of the research is the assessment of technical competence of young 10–12-year-old basketball players taking into account functional asymmetry.

The author checked experimentally the model of technical training of young basketball players taking into account functional asymmetry. Control tests to determine the technical competence of young basketball players were carried out. At the end of the pedagogical experiment, the indices of control tests performed by the dominant hand improved equally both in the control and in the experimental groups, and the level of formation of technical competence reached a high assessment. The indicators of control tests performed by the non-dominant hand in groups differ. In the control group, in all control tests, the indicators of young basketball players while performing exercises by the non-dominant hand, slightly improved, and the level increased from low to medium. In the experimental group, when performing the control tests by the non-dominant hand, the indicators increased from low to high level.

The reliable improvement of the indicators of technical competence of young basketball players proves the effectiveness of the implementation of technical training model taking into account the functional asymmetry, which includes the special-purpose exercise series aimed at the smoothing the existing functional asymmetry.

The relevance of the study is caused by the transition of the higher education institutions to the competency-based model of teaching and the search by the educational institutions for the tools for improving the quality of the trained specialists. Considering that the teaching load is reduced, it is necessary to revise the forms and techniques of the organization of the students’ individual work in order to develop formed competencies. Within this study, the electronic educational environment serves as a tool of the organization of the individual work of the students of a technical university. Orenburg Institute of Railways implements the electronic educational environment on the base of the modular object-oriented dynamic learning environment (Moodle). The authors highlight the possibilities of Moodle system within the implementation of the concept of “the social constructionism pedagogy” suggesting the individual cognitive activity of a student to be its central core. The special aspects of the organization of the individual work using the information technologies are described on the example of learning the discipline “Physics”. The authors characterize the structure of filling of the electronic educational environment and give the examples of the instructional techniques of the organization of learning activities used by the authors while carrying out the study. Such forms of work as the lecture, practical training, laboratory work, and laboratory project based on the virtual computer and full-scale models having practical application are described. Individual work is carried out by the students at various stages of learning: when acquiring new knowledge, reinforcing knowledge, reviewing and checking knowledge.

The paper contains the results of the experimental study that allowed evaluating the efficiency of the electronic educational environment application in the successful construction of the content component by all participants of the educational process, in the possibility of presenting the results of the achievements by the students both in the learning and extra-curricular activities, carrying out pedagogical control and monitoring.

The genre approach as a means of creative development of the students of children’s music schools is vitally important both for the composer’s and performer’s and for teaching music practice and this proves the necessity of its implementation. Within the listener’s activity of the students, the perception of genre content facilitates the deep understanding of the artist’s intention and its reference with own forming value system. Within the musical-performing activity of the students, the implementation of genre approach, as a means of creative development of children, promotes the artistically comprehensive and competent interpretation of a musical text, serves a particular tool for assessment of the validity of the selection of various techniques representing this genre. 

The paper reveals the significance of the implementation of genre approach to the organization of perception of music within the educational process of the children’s music school. The author explains that the genre approach facilitates the formation of the students’ knowledge about the genres, skills of hearing and awareness of genre semantics in music, understanding of the aesthetic nature of musical art and, finally, allows children to develop creatively.  

The author proves the importance of the application of the genre category when mastering main types of musical activity of the students of children’s music schools and determines the educational potential of genre approach as the methodological basis of solving the problems of learning the musical art.  

The paper demonstrates the necessity of a single target, on the basis of which the technological orientation of teaching musical-theoretical, musical-historical and musical-performing disciplines is overcome, – the orientation on the phenomenon of a musical composition.     

The main ways that provide the effective implementation of genre approach to the organization of the perception of music as a means of creative development of the students of children’s music schools are offered.

The paper covers the issue of activation of cognitive activity of younger schoolchildren. Changed educational process realia: the update of the educational content, the speed up of the education process, the increase in the volume of the information to be acquired, and so on – caused the significant deterioration of the physical and psychological status of today’s schoolchildren, which evidently influences the decrease in cognitive activity.

The paper presents the experience of theoretical and empirical research of the activation of cognitive activity of younger schoolchildren using the deformed tasks, characterizes the concepts of “cognitive activity”, “deformed tasks” within the educational context.

Within this study, the deformed tasks are considered to be the educational conditions for the activation of cognitive activity of younger schoolchildren. The paper considers the types of the deformed tasks: missed data tasks, “find the regularity and continue it”, and so on. The author gives the examples of the techniques of the learning class organization used by the authors at the formative stage of the empirical study.

The paper presents the results of the empirical study in the course of which the program of developmental teaching “Mathematics for fun” was implemented where much attention was paid to the deformed tasks allowing carrying out effectively the elementary school classes. The update and correction of means of the schoolchildren’s cognitive activity organization during the educational process is the objective of the experimental learning. The paper gives the examples of certain tasks and their descriptions. The positive dynamics stated for all indices allows speaking about the experimental program efficiency.

In the life of a modern man, the role of gadgets that, on the one hand, have a number of advantages, and, on the other hand, they fraught with a certain danger, especially for the growing generation, is increasing. The paper considers the Internet addiction phenomenon, which has become widespread in the modern world, and the associated behavioral problems, including the problems among the teenagers. The authors give the analysis of scientific research on this issue, carried out both abroad and in Russia. The goal is to consider the phenomenon of Internet addiction and the behavioral problems caused by it among modern teenagers.

The authors note the existence of various approaches to the understanding of Internet addiction (“Internet-mania”). Based on the analysis of the existing definitions of the term “Internet addiction” and the highlighting its essential characteristics, the author’s definition of Internet addiction is proposed. The paper contains the number of signs manifested in the behavior and consciousness of Internet-dependent people, including the physiological symptoms; the objects of dependence, specified by various researchers are listed. The authors consider the causes of the emergence of children and teens’ Internet addiction, among them there are: lack of communication and warm emotional relations in the family, lack of parents’ control, child’s inability to establish contacts with others, friendlessness. The authors highlight the necessity to develop and use the preventive programs aimed at the prevention of Internet-dependent behavior among the teenagers. At the same time, the attention is drawn to the feasibility of implementing these programs using the modern active techniques of conducting classes, providing the complex of modern interactive preventive (web quest, performance, case studies along with the traditionally used trainings, games, etc.), educational and upbringing events.

The demographic and social problems of a modern family are related to the difficulties which young people experience when taking on the family (matrimonial and parental) roles. However, the readiness for the fulfillment of family roles is developed both in women and men far before marriage and childbirth, beginning from the preschool age. This fact determines the necessity to study both the issues of readiness for parenting and the issues of this readiness development. The paper provides the theoretical basis for the study of psychological readiness for paternity and its development in ontogenesis, and the results of the empirical study to identify the possibility of the development of readiness for paternity among the preschool children. 252 test persons took part in our study: 168 parents of preschool children and 84 preschool boys, the average age of which was 5.3 years old. The families of the experimental group participated in the work on the creation of the environment favorable for the formation of readiness for paternity within the complex of measures affecting a child. The families of the control group did not participate in the work. The children of the control group were examined within the same time intervals as the experimental group. The statistical analysis of data obtained allows concluding about the positive dynamics among children of the experimental group while no dynamics was found among children of the control group. This fact proves the possibility to form the principles of psychological readiness for paternity within the psychological work on the creation of a favorable environment. The results of the study will be interesting for family psychologists and the researchers dealing with the theoretical and practical issues of parenthood psychology, gender issues and the issues of the psychology of family relations. 

The relevance of the research of coping strategies of a person in the foreign culture environment is determined by the necessity of a deeper study of coping mechanisms in the stressful situation of the acculturation process. The purpose of the study is to identify special aspects of coping strategies of the Korean men being in the foreign culture environment using the example of Korean men migrated to Russia for the first time and living on the territory of the Russian Federation for the purpose of professional development. 120 Korean men participated in the study with the use of six survey methods. The results of comparative analysis demonstrate the high level of self-control (regulation of own feelings and actions), planning (the existence of detailed plans with strong hierarchy), self-assessment (high evaluation of own resource possibilities), and the pronounced need in social support of “significant others” (high necessity for the opinion of significant people of the person’s environment) in a stressful situation. In the result of factor analysis, factor structures of groups of subjects are revealed indicating the relation of integration and assimilation with complex coping with the high level of adaptability, self-acceptance, and acceptance of other people, emotional comfort, and internal control. The study discovered the avoidance, maladaptive coping with self-rejection, socially desirable submissiveness, the emotional discomfort, and the external control under separatism. The study determined the relation of integration and assimilation with the social desirability, emotional discomfort, and maladaptation; of separatism – with the truth, emotional comfort, the desire for interaction, and adaptability. The acculturation strategies involve programming, modeling with flexible self-regulation. The integration involves the evaluation of the results without planning and distancing, and separatism means planning and independence, avoiding the problems. The identified special aspects can be taken into account when creating a psychological support program to improve the level of adaptation of Korean men within the Russian reality.