Murmansk Arctic State University Research Articles

Диссертационный совет САФУ 24.2.394.01: на пути к новым горизонтам

This article dwells on the academic and teaching activities of Vladimir A. Karelin (born 1952), a well-known teacher and historian who has studied the history of Russian-Norwegian relations. The main stages in his life are described, key areas and results of his research are characterized. V.A. Karelin is a prominent specialist on the history of Russia of the 19th and 20th centuries and the history of Russian-Norwegian relations. He has participated in a large number of international scientific projects with colleagues from the universities of Groningen (The Netherlands) and Tromsø (Norway), which resulted in the publication of study guides, scholarly articles, and a monograph on Svalbard. Moreover, he initiated the creation of the Barents Faculty at Murmansk State Pedagogical Institute (currently, Murmansk Arctic State University), which successfully carried out scientific, publishing and educational programmes aimed at developing international cooperation within the Barents Region.

К 70-летию нордиста Владимира Анатольевича Карелина

This article dwells on the academic and teaching activities of Vladimir A. Karelin (born 1952), a well-known teacher and historian who has studied the history of Russian-Norwegian relations. The main stages in his life are described, key areas and results of his research are characterized. V.A. Karelin is a prominent specialist on the history of Russia of the 19th and 20th centuries and the history of Russian-Norwegian relations. He has participated in a large number of international scientific projects with colleagues from the universities of Groningen (the Netherlands) and Tromsø (Norway), which resulted in the publication of study guides, scholarly articles, and a monograph on Svalbard. Moreover, he initiated the creation of the Barents Faculty at Murmansk State Pedagogical Institute (currently, Murmansk Arctic State University), which successfully carried out scientific, publishing and educational programmes aimed at developing international cooperation within the Barents Region.

Using customizable simulation models of high voltage electrical circuits in educational process

In the modern world, the issue of the use of digital technologies in the framework of teaching students in technical specialties is relevant. For a number of reasons, the solution of this issue is particularly important when preparing for training areas related to the electric power industry and high-voltage equipment. Software products that allow to carry out simulation modeling of technical systems are among the most accessible types of digital technologies used in higher educational institutions of Russia. When conducting classes on the study of transients in electrical circuits or electric drive control systems, students can use specialized software and build simulation models in the absence of real physical equipment. The paper assesses the need for training in the creation and use of simulation models of devices used in conducting high-voltage tests (using the example of a generator capable of realizing a high voltage of a given shape), as well as models of control systems of electric drives. An additional advantage contributing to the use of such schemes in teaching students is that the result of their work are the values of physical parameters presented in numerical form, which allows the developed models to be used as blocks or libraries for the implementation of larger-scale projects. A team of authors from the branch of the federal state budgetary educational institution of higher education “Murmansk Arctic State University”, Russia and the federal state autonomous educational institution of higher education “Murmansk State Technical University”, Russia process.

Всероссийская научно-практическая онлайн-конференция с международным участием «Социальные риски в современном обществе» (Мурманск, 3–4 декабря 2020 г.)

The national research and practice online conference with international participation – “Social risks in modern society” was held at the Murmansk Arctic State University to discuss the current problems with respect to the development of today’s society. The academic novelty of the stu­dies presented at the conference is determined by widening of the concepts of the social risk phenomenon, conditions, causes and consequences of risk exposure for individuals, social groups, institutions and the society as a whole; the identification of certain risk factors specific to various regions of Russia and foreign countries; the assessment of the impact of risk events in modern society, including the 2020 pandemic; the identification of risk management mechanisms as well as best practices to prevent and handle risk-related consequences.
 A total of 186 attendees, including 8 foreign experts, took part in the conference; 84 papers were presented, most of them were based on the findings of studies undertaken with the support by the Russian Fundamental Research Fund. The conference brought together participants from 22 Russian regions and 5 foreign countries. As a follow-up to the conference, there were deve­loped guidelines on social risk management in today’s context.

The use of multimedia language laboratory in teaching English phonetics at the university

The importance of correct English pronunciation is growing due to its central role in communication and the speaker’s identity. Non-native English speakers lack a natural linguistic environment and tend to carry articulation rules and intonation from their mother tongue. Modern conditions of the fast-paced world require a revision of the forms and methods of the educational process. Teachers should engage students in independent and individual work at classes, increase the use of practical and research tasks. Information technologies in the teaching process at different levels of education (both school and university) change the roles of all participants in the educational process. Thus, teachers are given more opportunities to improve their work, and students are taught a foreign language at a higher level. The article aims to state the advantages of using multimedia technologies as an educational tool in teaching English practical phonetics and to find out university students’ attitude to it. The object of the research is the benefits of working in a language laboratory, equipped with Rinel-Lingo (a multimedia language programme to train phonetics of a foreign language of university students). The article analyzes the results of the survey conducted in Murmansk arctic state university.

Способность самоуправления у студентов с различной степенью выраженности прокрастинации

Procrastination as a psychological phenomenon is increasingly in the focus of research in the context of social change. Due to the transition to distance learning during the pandemic, self-organization and self-management are gaining momentum. The article provides a brief theoretical overview of domestic and foreign research on self-government during studentship and procrastination. The article explores procrastination in educational and professional activities of students. Self-management of students, following N. M. Peisakhov, is understood as the ability of students to manage different types of activity. Procrastination is understood as an irrational delay in activity. The aim of the study was to identify the ability of self-management in students with varying degrees of procrastination. It was suggested that there are differences in self-management abilities among students with high, medium and low procrastination: students with a high degree of procrastination will have a lower self-management ability at all its stages than students with medium and low procrastination. The study used the following methods: “Procrastination Scale for student populations” by С. Lay and “Ability for self-government” by N. M. Peisakhov. The Fisher’s F-test was used to validate the results. The study involved 100 full-time students of the Murmansk Arctic State University (1–4 years of study) aged 17 to 21. It is found that the prevailing severity of procrastination among the respondents is of medium degree (46%). In general, students tend to postpone the completion of tasks, delay the deadlines for submitting tests, term papers, and internship reports. It is also revealed that the respondents have an average level of self-management ability at all stages. Students are able to set goals, make plans and decisions, but have difficulties in analyzing contradictions and showing flexibility as well as forecasting and choosing criteria for evaluating the success of their own activities. The results of the study showed that the self-management ability of students depends on the degree of procrastination: the higher the level of procrastination, the lower the ability of self-management. Further research may focus on the formation and development of student self-government, which will contribute to the optimization of educational process in the context of distance learning.

The forms of educational process organization at the institution of secondary vocational education

The paper actualizes the problem of the effectiveness of educational process organization at the institution of secondary vocational education. Various aspects of education in the system of secondary vocational education are presented and special attention is focused on the forms of educational process organization. The author shares the experience of students education through the use of such forms of educational process organization as student self-government and student public association in the branch of Murmansk Arctic State University in Kirovsk. The principles on which student self-government in the branch is based (the principle of statehood, the principle of voluntariness, the principle of unification, the principle of autonomy, the principle of partnership, the principle of consistency, the principle of corporatism) are indicated and the characteristics of these principles are given. The value foundations of student self-government organization in the branch are presented: goodness, justice; mercy; honour; dignity; respect for the dignity of another person, equality, responsibility, etc. The types of student self-government are designated: student council; student union; student club for social design; student parliamentary club, etc. The educational possibilities of student public associations of the branch (civil-patriotic; sports and recreation; research; cultural and leisure; professionally oriented orientation) are considered. The goals, objectives and activities of student public associations Student patriot citizen, Ministry of Sports, Branch of Culture and Creativity are also considered. The author indicates the values to which students who take part in the activities of student public associations are attached. The conclusion is made about the effectiveness of student self-government and student public associations as forms of educational process organization in the branch for the improvement of such qualitative indicators of students education as partnership, mutual responsibility, moral interaction, social guidelines in project work, mobilization for important tasks solving.

The role of the “reference University” in the socio-economic development of the Murmansk region

The article describes the role of “reference universities” in the socio-economic development of the region. The analysis of the branches of the economy of the Murmansk region in need of personnel, as well as a list of areas of training of specialists at the Murmansk Arctic State University, which need to carry out a target set of students.

К вопросу арктической идентичности студентов университетов Арктики

The paper discusses the features of self-identification of students of three universities in relation to the Arctic. The purpose of this study is to identify students' Arctic identity, to define the concept of the Arctic in the world. The comparative results of a questionnaire survey of students of the North-Eastern Federal University (Yakutsk), Northern (Arctic) Federal University (Arkhangelsk) and the Murmansk Arctic State University (Murmansk) conducted in 2017-2019 are analyzed. Arctic identity is considered as a social phenomenon. Preliminary results of the study show that the Arctic identity of university students in the Arctic is not formed, or partially formed. Students identify as northerners rather than residents of arctic territories. The Arctic is identified with the north by half of the respondents; the answer options chosen by the students of NEFU differed from the choice of students at MASU and NArFU. The survey results can be used to create conditions for the formation of the territorial identity of the youth of the Arctic.

Визуальный текст арктического города: методы анализа и варианты интерпретации

The study is devoted to the consideration of a city as a semiotic phenomenon and the identification of specifics of visual signs and sign systems that form it. Its relevance is caused by the need to use a humanitarian research of a city, especially on strategically important northern territories. A visual text of a city is considered in several aspects: the meaning of individual signs (a semantic analysis), principles of connecting signs into systems of various levels (a syntactic analysis), the interaction of signs with a perceiving subject (a pragmatic analysis). A pragmatic analysis of a visual text of a city is presented in the case of Murmansk. Described interpretation options of a visual text are based on answers of informants to the questionnaire developed as a part of the project ‘The Creative City – the Territory of Development’ of Murmansk Arctic State University. As a result of the survey, recommendations are formulated about the formation of an architectural and artistic appearance of this city. The scientific novelty of the study consists in applying the methodology of a semiotic analysis to a visual text of Murmansk. The theoretical significance lies in the possibility of using these methods in relation to visual texts of other cities.

Development of professional competence of future foreign language teachers in inclusive education through profession-based volunteering

The existing modern trends, associated with the need for a wider inclusion of children with disabilities in society, actualize the problem of the formation of inclusive competence of teachers, and the teachers of foreign languages are not an exception. We should start the process of development of this professional competence at university level. The article aims to state the importance of the acquiring inclusive professional competence in teaching children with special educational needs by university students, studying at the department of foreign languages, through profession-based volunteering. federal state educational standard of higher education provides the universities with the list of necessary competences that should be developed in educational process. These competences can be divided into groups: general, basic, special and specific competences. The object of the research is the process of inclusive competence development of future foreign language students of Murmansk arctic state university through profession-based volunteering. The article analyzes the results of the survey conducted in Murmansk arctic state university.

Development of Professional Competences of teachers and Psychologists in the Conditions of Joint training

The article presents the results of an experiment to create a model of joint training of students studying on the programs 44.03.01 “Teacher education” and 44.03.03 “Special (defectological) education” at the university. The goal of such educational integration was to ensure the effective interaction of future professionals in these areas in the process of psychological and pedagogical support of schoolchildren with developmental delay who are studying in the conditions of inclusive or integrated environment. Traditional (separate) training of primary education teachers and special psychologists does not allow them to implement properly their professional competencies which are formed within autonomous educational approaches impeding productive cooperation in the context of modern educational practice.The experimental model of joint training of teachers of primary education and special psychologists has been being piloted at Murmansk Arctic State University for several years. The subject field is monitoring of individual development of primary school-age children with developmental delay. The quality of joint training was evaluated in the third and fourth grade curriculum. We assessed the development of cognitive and practical components of professional competences. On the whole the experiment involved 35 future teachers and 35 future special psychologists, 15 professors and 30 workers of educational institutions. The sampling consisted of the full-time students of 2010-2011 enrollment who were selected in two groups – control and experimental. The dynamics of the formation of professional competences was assessed according to the same parameters and we used a large number of diagnostic tests for interim and final evaluation. On the whole the experiment has been organized as a longitude study. During the experiment we have got 280 products of students’ work, which became the base to provide the rationale for the conclusion that joint training of future teachers of primary education and special psychologists has obvious advantages in comparison with the traditional model of students’ training. The professional competences demonstrated by the students of the experimental group were sufficient for providing an adequate psychological and pedagogical support of schoolchildren with developmental delay studying in the conditions of inclusive or integrated environment.

Comparative study of socio-economic barriers to development of digital competences during formation of human capital in Russian Arctic

The article is dedicated to analysis of problems and barriers hindering the development of human capital in the Arctic region, starting from the stage when skills and abilities, in particular those connected to digital competences and information and communication technologies, are acquired by future professionals throughout modern higher education. We have presented the results for a target group comprising students of the Murmansk Arctic State University (Apatity Branch). We have carried out a survey of the target group, including via the online GoogleForms service, analyzing the answers given by the respondents. Analysis of the results allowed to identify the socio-economic barriers hindering the development of digital competences. We have provided the results of comparative analysis with the previously obtained characteristics of students of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, finding both similarities and differences in certain aspects of formation of digital competences of the respondents of the two given regions.

Murmansk Arctic State University – Scientific and Educational Center of the Murmansk Region

The paper addresses the role of universities in the generation, use and dissemination of knowledge, analyzes principles and ways to develop science and education at universities. It is emphasized that the University is becoming an active player not only in training, but also in the production of a new knowledge, in its dissemination and implementation through innovation. At the same time, it is necessary to note that the conditions of the Far North impose a unique specificity on the work of the University and its scientific and innovative activities.For Murmansk Arctic State University (MASU), scientific and research work is one of the most dynamically developing components that create development potential. The paper presents the range of MASU’s scientific activities which includes 3 main spheres: natural science, technical science, social science, and Humanities. The authors dwell on the students’ and postgraduates’ scientific activities, consider the youth scientific organizational structure.As a flagship University, MASU is implementing a strategic development project “MASU is Scientific and Technological Hub of the Region” formed with the direct support of the Government of the Murmansk region. Within the framework of the project, an information and analytical platform was created in MASU under the partnership with Kola Science Center RAS (IAP MASU-KSC). This platform is an integrating consulting mechanism including a set of technological, commercial and marketing solutions for the development and implementation of innovative products and technologies in organizations operating in the field of ensuring a comfortable human presence in the Far North.As one of the priority goals of the strategic development of the University, the trajectory of the Arctic scientific and educational center (SEC) creation on the basis of MASU is highlighted. The key areas and ways to improve the efficiency of scientific and educational activities of MASU, as well as the expected results of the SEC are considered.

Internationalization of the Flagship University: Arctic Vector

The article addresses complex process of internationalization in higher education which largely determines the specifics of a regional educational establishment that has the status of a flagship university. In the modern context, the internationalization of higher education serves as a strategy for active introduction of the international dimension into all the basic spheres of university life and turns out to be a much wider phenomenon than just a simple combination of various types of international activities. As a constantly evolving process, internationalization implies the continuous transformation of various educational areas and acts as a catalyst for external changes occurring in education. Despite the fact that in the basic documents regulating the functioning of flagship universities, international activities are not singled out as a separate area, the Murmansk Arctic State University (MASU) includes an international component in its strategic development program, assuming the implementation of a distributed model when the international component is consistently integrated into educational, research- and innovation-related and administrative aspects of the university’s functioning. The authors analyze the distinctiveness of the internationalization forms on the basis of such best practices implemented by the Murmansk Arctic State University as the research and educational project “Borderology”, the program “Bachelor of Northern Studies” and many others. The specific character of the region informatively and structurally determines the educational space of a flagship university, the northernmost higher education establishment of the Russian Federation, developing in a transboundary field. The authors argue convincingly that international activities significantly enhance the potential of the flagship university, allowing the use of international network resources to ensure the socio-economic development of the region and in order to enrich its socio-cultural space. The movement towards internationalization, the value positioning of the internationalization of higher education, according to the authors, mean for a modern university a kind of test of its flexibility, ability to adapt and innovate.

Murmansk Arctic State University – Institution with the Northern Character

The article focuses on the issues of the formation of a conceptually new target model of a regional flagship university. Based on the experience of the formation and development of the Murmansk Arctic State University, which acquired the status of a flagship one in 2017, the authors analyze the origins of the formation of the model, its specificity, which is substantively and formally defined in the parameters of the Arctic perspective. The major intensively developing areas of MASU’s activity in the past two years have been focuses on two important factors of regional development, implemented in the form of two strategic flagship university projects. The first strategic project – “MASU is the scientific and technological hub of the region” – is aimed at solving the most acute regional task of effectively using both the economic and scientific / innovative potential of the region. The second strategic project – “Creative City is a Territory of Development” – reflects the interaction of the creative communities of the region, the Russian Federation and the world with prospect consumers represented by the regional government, municipalities, institutions and industrial enterprises. MASU is the main platform for combining a variety of strategies and searches aimed at changing urban and township sociocultural spaces, an integrator of various areas of design, creative technologies and cultural practices that affect the improvement of the quality of life and human capital development. The key role is determined by the role of the flagship university as a driver of the regional socio-economic development. The developing dialogue between the university, business and government is affirmed as an indispensable condition for the University’s successful functioning and a pledge for its further development.

Strategic Project «Creative City – Territory of Development» as a Model of Interaction between Flagship University and Region

The article presents the experience of Murmansk Arctic State University in the implementation of a unique project for the region – «Creative city – territory of development», which reflects innovative social practices, technologies of project training and the strategy of the University to fulfill its potential in the creative industries. Creative industries are a growth point for the regional “smart specialization”, significantly affecting the quality of life of the local communities and fulfilling not only current, but also emerging human needs. Therefore it is important to involve the younger generation in creative activities in order to develop experience of participation in new socio-economic processes. The discussion about the productivity of classical and project solutions in professional training programs determined the advantage of creative projects of students to present their competencies not only to potential employers, but also to other stakeholders in the development of the region. Initiatives in the Northern Design Cluster and the Tourism and Recreation Cluster of the Murmansk Region have become a new type of university activities; their the projects allow to attract experts to discuss areas of work and clusters cooperation models. Creative industries meet the challenges of the era, when for success the territories must use the resources of cultural brands, shape the quality of life by developing social spaces, non-standard use of color and light in design for psycho-emotional well-being. The project “Creative City – Territory of Development” makes it possible to get feedback from the local communities. The university consistently implements a strategy of expanding areas of participation in the life of the region, conducts research on integrating the modern Arctic design, socio-cultural and economic practices of municipalities. Therefore, the article analyzes the growth factors and ways of influence of the university on the regional community in the field of creative industries; emphasizes the complexity of the tasks and the increase in the number of stakeholders in the creative industries, underlines the fact that university projects are both the creative products and creative technologies for the formation of professional competences in the welfare industry, tourism and design.

Prerequisites and prospects for health-saving pedagogy development in the Murmansk Region

The paper briefly presents an analysis of students competences development at Murmansk Arctic State University: readiness to maintain the level of physical training, providing a full-fledged activity, as well as readiness to ensure students life and health protection within the Federal state educational standard of higher education. On the basis of the pedagogical research conducted among students of Murmansk Arctic State University, the authors propose prerequisites and prospects for health-saving pedagogy development in the Murmansk Region, define priorities of the health center, opened at the University, work out organizational and pedagogical recommendations for the educational process optimization, focusing on physical culture, preservation and strengthening of students health, taking into account climatic and geographical features of the region. The following tendency is revealed: introduction of the individual differentiated approach into the educational process of physical education taking into account the type of students constitution showed its efficiency in comparison with other approaches in physical education of students. The main thing is the use of this pedagogical method contributes to the development of young peoples motivational-value attitude to physical culture and a healthy lifestyle: as a result of pedagogical experiment, the majority of respondents expressed a desire to be engaged in physical training on a regular basis and showed interest in health-saving technologies.

Practice-oriented approach use for prospective designers and teachers training at higher educational establishments

This paper deals with the problem of results quality improving in educational programs and their development in connection with the introduction of new higher education standards, which require the usage of a practice-oriented approach in training future designers and teachers. Topical aspects of competence model in training students majoring in graphic design are elucidated in the paper. A trend that traditional education is losing ground to practice-oriented education is also considered. The paper deals with basic modern approaches to understanding and defining the essence of practice-oriented learning. The author's vision of knowledge-oriented and practice-oriented approach balance (with regard to the educational specifics of teachers-designers) is presented. It describes the implementation of practice-oriented training in the internship of designers and teachers of Arts and Service Department at Murmansk Arctic State University. It is necessary to create methodological support of the training process according to the requirements of a practice-oriented training model. Pedagogical literature in training, analysis of state educational standards, modern approaches to the design and implementation of e-learning, own practical experience, description of the main provisions were used in the development of practice-oriented electronic textbook Information technologies in graphic design. The paper depicts a basic method of practice-oriented learning that is implemented in educational practice at Arts and Service Department at MASU.

TO THE QUESTION OF FORMING PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE AMONG BACHELOR STUDENTS OF SPECIAL (DEFECTOLOGICAL) EDUCATION IN THE PROCESS OF ORGANIZING STUDY AND WORK PRACTICES

The actual contemporary scientific problem is the search for new approaches to training Bachelors students who can effectively carry out psychological and pedagogical support of learners with problems in mastering educational programs of primary general education. The author proposes a solution to the problem in terms of practical training of students enrolled in the Bachelor program in Special (Defectological) Education, with profile in Special Psychology that enriches and specifies the competence-based approach in higher education. The research, presented in the article, based on the methodology of the competency approach, reveals the idea that the level of professional competence is not determined by the size and breadth of knowledge, and the ability to solve professional problems of different levels is based on existing knowledge which is an integral competence. This specialist is actual to the labor market meeting the expectations of the employer. The author analyzes the theoretical aspects of the problem of forming professional competence of Bachelors students in Special (Defectological) Education (with profile of Special Psychology), taking into account FSES HE requirements during educational and practical training of students as exemplified by the Department of Special Education and Special Psychology of FSBEI HE Murmansk Arctic State University. The main directions of work on forming general and professional competences among students with regard to activities in the framework of a future profession.