Ochirova E.V., Candidate
of Pedagogical Science,
Associate
Professor of Kalmyk State University
Pedagogical
education
in
the context of the Bologna
process
(based on the Kalmyk
State University experience)
Improving the quality of students’ teaching at higher educational
institutions is one of the most actual and urgent problems of the modern
Russian society. In this connection much is being done in the way of
modernization of education content, in the search of more productive
technologies concerning the organization of the educational process, in the
reinterpretation of the goals and results of education. All these certainly
help reconsider traditional orientation of higher education and lead to a new understanding
of quality education.
Currently, Kalmyk State University as the head higher educational institution
in the Republic of Kalmykia is the most essential component and indicator of
the quality of social-economic development in the region.
Today Kalmyk State University plays a leading part in the system of
training and retraining specialists for various spheres of national economy in
the integration of high school and academic science. The University consists of
8 faculties and the Institute of the Kalmyk Philology and Oriental Studies. The
students are doing in 22 specialties of higher education, 20 programmes for bachelor’s
degree, 13 programmes for master’s academic degrees, 18 specialties of
secondary professional education, and several programmes of supplementary
education. Academic, educational and research work is carried out
by a highly qualified teaching staff
which consists of 500 tutors including 70 PhD (Full Professors), 285
Candidates of Science, 12 Academicians
and Corresponding Members of The Russian Academies of Science.
Having a certain positive experience in training undergraduate students,
specialists, masters and candidates of science according to two-level system of
higher professional education, Kalmyk State University purposefully prepares mass transfer Therefore,
in the variant presented by the Faculty of Pedagogical Education and Biology of
Kalmyk State University the breaking and the destruction of established pedagogical
traditions are excluded.
It is proposed to move to a strictly structured multilevel system of
higher education, in which on the basis of traditional preparation of
elementary school teachers it is offered to train specialists of higher
qualification with the help of continuing education at the further postgraduate
degrees.
In general, the process of preparation of future elementary school
teachers can be illustrated by the duration of periods of study characterized
by the following minimal terms:
- a Bachelor’s degree (basic education);
- a Master’s degree – supplementary 2 years;
- a degree of Candidate of Science – 3-4 years more.
So, it takes 9-10 years altogether to complete the whole process. In
this case, the receiving of appropriate professional degree but not an academic
one is certified with the diplomas given after getting the first two degrees.
Multilevel pedagogical education is implemented by different in content
and terms of study successive educational-professional programmes. Such
education provides a solution of the following tasks: for a personality (a
student) – to make an individual choice of the content and level of required
education and professional training which correspond with intellectual, social
and economic his or her demands; for a society (system of education) – to
acquire a specialist with necessary qualification options in a shorter time;
for a teaching staff (of a faculty and University) – to realize the scientific
and professional-pedagogical potential more fully.
Thus, multilevel system of education in Kalmyk State University gives a
student all the possibilities to receive education at different levels, to
choose the terms and rate of training, its content, forms and methods. These
features are directly connected with the development of individual styles of
students’ educational (professional) work which is in its turn a main means of
realization
With the inclusion of the Russian Federation into the Bologna process,
this system seems to be very flexible. It gives a student a possibility to
choose a level of training, a discipline, a higher educational institution,
faculties, and navigate in the process of study in the spectrum of proposed specialties
and directions choosing the one that best serves their interests, wishes and
individual needs.
References:
1. Mityaeva A.M. The peculiarities of multilevel
system of training in a modern higher educational institution// Pedagogics. –
2005. ¹8. – P.69-73.
2. Tokmovtseva M.V. Multilevel professional education
in Russia// The Law: journal for busy
people. – 2006. - ¹ 4. – P.34-39.