In this article, an analysis is made of deviating forms of behaviour from the standpoint of Victor Frankl's theory of a noogenic neurosis. The concepts of "existential vacuum", "existential frustration", "phenomenon of loss of meaning" are considered as a group of factors influencing the formation of adolescent escapism in conditions of the age crisis. For […]

The article describes the formation of parent organizations in the early twentieth cen­tury. An important role in this process was played by the St. Petersburg Parents' circle. During the revolution of 1905-1907 parent committees were set up in secondary schools all over the country. However, the attitude of the official authorities to these organizations was […]

The article presents a new explanatory model of a country children's camp based on Michel Foucault's concept. The author offers to consider a summer camp as an in­tegration of four options (speech discourses, cultural practices and types of social rela­tions): «the summer camp as a military settlement)), «summer camp as a sanatorium, sum­mer camp as […]

The article discusses one of the ways for express measuring of quality of preschool education with the help of ECERS-R (Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale) in the conditions of optimization the organizational and economic conditions for carrying out the examination. It is proved that the proposed method gives an acceptable or even high accuracy of […]

In the article, in the methodological context, the possibility of introducing a new con­cept to indicate the of state of consciousness accompanying the presence of the subject in an extreme situation and the situation of uncertainty. It is connected with adequate orientation in the current situation, building of a situational algorithm, making a decision and […]