The spring issue of the on-line journal "Lifelong Education: the XXI Century" is offered to attention of our regular and new readers.
The issue opens with «In memoriam» section devoted to Vladimir Karakovsky, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, People's Teacher of the USSR, one of the creators of cooperative pedagogy who made his contribution to the Russian tradition of collective education.
The number of documents defining the long-term development of the national education system has recently emerged. Thus, you may be interested in the article raising the question of scientific and pedagogical parameters to assess a strategic document quality in the field of education. In connection with the discussion of the project "Strategies for the Development of Education in the Russian Federation until 2025", the presented issue draws significant attention to upbringing as an integral part of education.
Our authors address the methodology of analysis and evaluation of patriotic consciousness values; continuous development mechanisms of spiritual and moral values of family education; and specific Russian traditions of educational work related to "pedagogical team" concept. The necessity and possibility of lifelong astronomy education development among Russian school students is in tune with the modern era aspirations. Time dictates the appearance of new trends and topics within a lifelong education context. One of those topics is continuity, creativity and cultural unfolding of youth under military intervention. The problem is considered from the standpoint of a direct participant in international humanitarian missions in Afghanistan and Kosovo.
One aspect of the global lifelong learning context development is revealed through the example of an international academy as a source of a scientist's continuing education. An article analyzes the 20-year practice of the International Academy for the Humanization of Education (IAHE), combining the efforts of researchers from more than twenty countries. As in previous years, we continue to present foreign lifelong education practices, this time – through the examples of Great Britain and Poland. The presented issue also discusses modern educational technologies. Our readers may be interested in the experiments related to the potential applications of virtual reality for teaching students of all ages and in the interpretation of coaching as a technique based on the concept of joint development.
We wish you an interesting reading and encourage you to share your ideas on our academic forum. We also invite readers to visit our digital Reading Room and get familiar with lifelong education studies carried out by scholars at Petrozavodsk State University in 2014. As always, we are looking for new authors and articles.
The Editorial Board
