As we approach the New Year, we offer to your attention the eighth issue of the online journal "Lifelong Education: XXI century." The geography of publications is constantly expanding; and this time, the authors from Vitebsk, Muncie (the USA), Nizhny Novgorod and Riga joined us.
The issue opens with «In memoriam» section devoted to Lyudmila Luzina, a prominent Russian scientist and professor from Pskov. It presents her colleagues' and students’ recollections as well as a fragment from a philosophical and pedagogical paper she did not complete.
The paper on transdisciplinary research strategy continues a series of articles dedicated to the development of new methodological foundations of lifelong education. An extensive list of references and sources allows readers to further explore transdisciplinarity phenomenon in an educational context. An internal correlation exists between the articles discussing modern seniors as actors of lifelong education and the concept of educational "care of the self" in a postmodern era.
The issue extensively presents an author's experience of experimental work at different levels of lifelong learning. The article on students' personal fulfillment through research- and project-based activity discusses an opportunity to manage lifelong creative process in computer science at all stages of schooling. In addition to a detailed pedagogical description of the work with children and adolescents, the author gives a lot of video links and other interesting data on the technical aspects. Other articles discuss the practice of teaching in an interactive environment at a university level as well as pedagogical support of students as a prerequisite for academic mobility. As an option for additional professional education, the experiential learning built on improving aspiring entrepreneurs' self-experience is shown.
Heads of educational institutions and education managers will find especially interesting the following two articles: on management of an educational institution in the context of system changes and on the contradictions in modern assessment procedures.
Best wishes for the Christmas holidays and happy forthcoming New Year. We wish you all peace, health, joy of creativity in various fields and success on your lifelong education way!
The Editorial Board
