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1751 | The First World War brought many changes to economic, social and political life of the country. The problem became vitally important either for the central part of Russia or the periphery of empire. Here we should pay a special attention to the Altai of Tomsk province where the authorities organized charitable funds and trusteeships, where the families of the called up soldiers were provided with agricultural help. Besides their studies, pupils accepted extraduties, voluntarily assisting soldiers families. The formation of labour teams from pupils was very important either from educational points of view. Keywords: . | 964 | |||||
1752 | On the basis of the analysis of the literature the author of the article draws a conclusion about the basic tasks of economic education of the students of technical high schools, about meaning of the creative approach in studying economy. The special attention in the article is given to the organization of independent job of the students, in particular, to problem methods of training, modeling of concrete situations, drawing up of the tasks of different levels of complexity, and also with use of the structural-logic circuits promoting to the effective development of professional and economic abilities, intelligence as a whole, necessary for the appropriate professional activity. Keywords: economic education, economic thinking, independent job, concrete situation, problem method | 964 | |||||
1753 | The article taking as a basis integration of philosophical psychological and pedagogical approaches reveals the essence of problem of education of valuable attitude of person to the world. The author analyses different researches and gives her own interpretation of conception «valuable attitude», reveals structural components of it, proves a necessity of integrated approach to their realization in educational process and also the author suggests an experimental approach to the education of valuable attitude to the world from the children of preschool age. | 964 | |||||
1754 | The paper is investigating the natural scientific basis of A. P Chechov's creative work assuming that basis as a source of the synergetical comprehension of the place of Man in the world, which view is flourishing at present. This approach substantiates the fundamental peculiarities of Chechov's creative work and its present actuality. | 963 | |||||
1755 | In this paper the author considers two approaches to understanding the game role in the study process. There are the games that could be the means of study activity activization as well as the means of teaching. Special atten¬tion is paid to the role of the game for preschool children during study process. The author aims to emphasize the importance and ne¬cessity of using mental games for preschool children in class which favour creative abilities of children. The names of mental games are listed in this paper. The author gives a detailed description of some games. The conditions of the game conducted are presented. Keywords: - | 963 | |||||
1756 | Mathematics is submultitude of Cultural World. Cultural World is subject-object variety of possessors of senses of material and spiritual activity of a man. The activity of sense-building itself and a man realizing it are elements of Cultural World and possessors of its culture and sense. Sense is a one-to-one correspondence between a multitudes of demands and possibilities which satisfy them. Mathematical vision of sense-obtaining process gives a chance to build the trajectory of sense as godograph of its radius-vector. Mathematical culture have the trajectory of sense reflecting sense of mathematical education and philosophy of mathematics. | 963 | |||||
1757 | The article is devoted to demographic situation in Russia. It allows formulating more precisely the basic problems of development of domestic economy. Studying prospects of development of Russian economy is especially important in view of its introduction into WTO by the end of 2005. | 963 | |||||
1758 | The content of the article points to a fragment of contemporary language personality vocabulary, which reflects the basic knowledge of literature study. The specificity of terms of literature study is connected with their interdisciplinary character. The place of “naive study of literature” in vocabulary is researched on the basis of “The Russian Associative Dictionary” data and associative experiments. The connection between “naive literature study” and a language speaker cultural literacy and their communicative competence is examined. | 963 | |||||
1759 | The present article is devoted to the research of social and cultural reasons of delinquent behavior of the underage which defines the breaking-up of the norms, as the standard of behavior in general. It signifies the change of the treatment of the society towards the mechanisms of the purposeful socialization, the youth is influenced by. | 963 | |||||
1760 | In the article the following positions are stated. Urgency of studying and development of cognitive activity of teenagers at modern school. Substantiation of rationality of use of ecological activity for development of cognitive activity of teenagers. Essence of development of cognitive activity. Experience of development of cognitive activity of teenagers during ecological activity on the basis of one of rural schools of Siberia | 963 | |||||
1761 | The objective of the investigation was study of influence of negative emotions on mental health of women under family crisis. Psychocorrective work with these patients. Keywords: divorce, problem family relations, family crisis, behavioral disorders, correction of problem behavior | 963 | |||||
1762 | The article is devoted to identify consistency among components of children’s psychological school readiness and development of junior schoolchildren’s learning position. The author analyzes varied approaches to the problem of school readiness, reveals correlations between children’s attitude to instructional situation, development of memory, logical thinking, self-discipline and the level of schoolchildren’s learning position. Keywords: psychological readiness of children to schooling, active learning position of schoolchild, attitude to instructional situation, memory, logical thinking, self-discipline | 963 | |||||
1763 | In the article presents some features of Finland educational system, which is one of the world leaders in education. The article is based on the data of the author’s trip to Kuopio (province Savona) in Mai 2011. Keywords: levelling politics, accessibility of education, general education, training of school teachers. | 963 | |||||
1764 | The fashion сatalogue’ communication which is structured by genres, is the part of culture. The speech genre is the priority object to examine culture and speech. Adequate interpretation of the speech genres (especially their comparison) is impossible without consideration of the culturological aspects of genres, i. e. aspects of the problem “Genre and Culture”. Keywords: speech genre, culture, fashion, discourse, comparison – culturological study | 963 | |||||
1765 | The specific nomination tendencies peculiar to professional-slangy component of medicine language are considered in this article on the base of the conceptual sphere “sick man/patient”. Linguistic facts connected with the enrichment of nomination fund and with the occasional character of nomination processes in the non-codified modification of medicine language are revealed. Keywords: medicine language, non-codified modification of medicine language, professional-slangy vocabulary and phraseology, nomination processes | 963 | |||||
1766 | Results of research of personal characteristics of psychological readiness for research activity at beginning scientists are shown. The qualities that are a reference point for professional and personal development of beginning scientists are revealed. The importance of distinctions between respondents with various degree of an involvement into research activities for such personal characteristics, as responsibility, accuracy, self-checking, persistence, foresight, sociability and emotional stability is empirically proved. Keywords: psychological readiness, research activity, self-assessment, personal features | 963 | |||||
1767 | The given article covers the results of an initiative international pilot project aimed at creating up-to-date teaching materials for training the Central Asian youth to study and work activity on the territory of Russia. The general purpose of the present elaboration is increasing the level of language and culture adaptation of students from the above-mentioned region to communicating with the Russian-speaking population. The article views some peculiarities in language interference of Central Asian students in Russia’s higher learning institutions (by the example of speakers whose native language is Tajik). Some ways of overcoming such interference are justified. Keywords: Russian as a foreign language, language interference, languages of Central Asian peoples, Tajik, language and culture adaptation | 963 | |||||
1768 | Scientific and theoretical approaches to the problem of studying the features of reproductive and creative activity of children of preschool age with strong speech disorders are concerned. Studied the problem of coherent speech development of preschool children from the point of view of psycholinguistic approach. The methods of studying the peculiarities of connected speech in the process of reading literature works are suggested. The features of receptivereproductive and reconstructive activities of mastering coherent speech of children with strong speech disorders are found. Found the directions for the development of coherent speech of children with speech disorders. Educational work is conducted in the following directions: development of psychophysiological functions, development of linguistic operations, development of reproductive activity, development of creative activity. Keywords: text, strong speech disorder, creative activity, reproductive activity, verbal creativity, connected speech, literature work | 963 | |||||
1769 | The paper is aimed at grounding associative relations as an integrative communicative property of the word, through which the other properties of the word are defined. | 962 | |||||
1770 | In the article the analysis of the modern theory of knowledge is realized, it’s developmental trends indicated as “epistemic revolution” which directed to change the classical, science oriented theory of knowledge into socially-human synthetic view of gnoseological problems are lighted. The trends of historization, sociologization and axiologization of gnoseology marked as the main one’s in forming of the modern non-classical theory of knowledge and considered as the common strategy showed as the most shaped one in the intersubjects research “case-study” strategy. In the article it is showed that different versions of the interpretative paradigm, which develops in the frame of constructionist’s epistemic program, are considered as “theoretical background” of the researches made by means of the “case-study” method. | 962 | |||||
1771 | In the article the author considers the system of psychological and pedagogical approach to an estimation of teachers’ training quality in high school and development of the concept for quality training of specialists in pedagogical high school. She describes technologies of quality providing training, and creation of the educational environment for develop¬ment of creative potential of the person. | 962 | |||||
1772 | Investigations of electrical breakdown in acceleration gap of plasma cathode electron source are presented. The tested pressure range 0,01 -0,1 Torr is produced by only mechanical pumps. It is stated breakdown volt¬age decreases with emission current growth. The most probable reason is electric field growth because of ac¬celeration gap shortening as a result of plasma produc¬ing near accelerating electrode. | 962 | |||||
1773 | The article is devoted to investigating the models of semantic derivation in the Old Russian Language. The analysis is focused on the metaphorical denotation of the basic emotions, joy, sorrow, fear, anger etc. The insufficiency of the data about the dia-chronical aspect of emotive vocabulary makes the research topical. | 962 | |||||
1774 | The clause is devoted to the analysis of means of verbalization concept "Christening" in Russian national fairy tale. Named concept is a component of a folklore Christian picture of the world. Its consideration represents significant research interest in connection with a role of sacrament of a christening to life of the orthodox Christian. Thus those scripts which were reflected in Russian national fairy tale are marked, and the reasons of such choice come to light. Lexical means of verbalization concept "Christening" are allocated first of all and their role in the folklore text is defined. So the value of God parents established by church canons, and reflected in national consciousness, for example, is compared, and also various national signs and the customs connected with a christening and God are considered. Thus the special attention is given type of a fairy tale in which it is reflected data concept - magic, household or a fairy tale on animals. The urgency of work is connected with revival of Christianity and heightened interest to its history. | 962 | |||||
1775 | The article deals with examination of regulative principles of fiction and advertising texts. Using the comparative approach the author shows the peculiarities of regulative-strategic construction of fiction and advertising texts as the systems of different codes, the latter manage the interpretative reader’s activity and are focused into the prepotent synthesized codes. They are the following: aesthetic code, which functions in fiction communication, and manipulative-pragmatic code, which dominates in advertising communication. | 962 | |||||
1776 | High technologies evoke considerable changes in the system of «science». These changes touch upon such questions as organization and disciplinary structure of science, principles of control over scientific society, ways of scientific communication and reproduction, training of scientific specialists and problem of scientific ethics as well. Ethic standards play crucial role in competitive interactions within scientific society. The main consequences of High-Tech influence on scientific ethics are rapprochement of ideals of natural, social and human sciences, merging values and standards of science, manufacture and business. The research is supported by grant RFBR № 04-06-80192. | 962 | |||||
1777 | In accordance to sociological investigation more than 82 % of young Russian people have a positive deliverance about patriotic education, including different sports sections, sports and rest winter and summer camps. The same forms of tours of civil-patriotic set in summer camps in Tomsk region we have organized up to 2004 years. In this article we talk over about preparation and instrumentation summer patriotic camp, program and pedagogical principles, and demonstrate an examples of the documents | 962 | |||||
1778 | The article is concerned with the study of lexical means that actualize associative level for some sides of chaos concept in poems of O. E. Mandelstam. The study was conducted within the boundaries of communicative stylistics of text and concentrated on two generalized associative arrays: chaos — basis of being; chaos — eternity — mystery — cosmic space (sky — planets). Some specific characteristics of poet’s worldview and style are revealed. Keywords: concept, textual associations, associative array, poetic worldview, individual style | 962 | |||||
1779 | The article considers the functional displays of the epistolary discurs as specific form of communicative – speech practice. The function of dialogue is analyzed as a basic one, a number of private functions is investigated. The author draws a conclusion about multifunctionality of the letters – the property shown in the sphere of interpersonal communications and making genre-stylistic feature of this type of discurs . Keywords: the communications, epistolary discurs, epistolary text, function of the text, communicative installation, communicative strategy of the text, pragmatical potential of the text | 962 | |||||
1780 | Informative, evaluative functions and stylistic features of newspaper headlines are examined in this article. Newspapers «The Kuznetsky rabochy» and «The Novokuznetsk» are materials for analysis. Headlines of newspaper materials are groped thematically. Keywords: newspaper style, strong position of the text, functions of the headline, subject | 962 | |||||
1781 | The aim of the article is to reveal and systematize standard methods of discrediting political rivals in the publicistic literature of the 16th century. The author comes to the conclusion that the majority of these methods have an archaic origin and their usage bears a stereotyped character. Keywords: Russian state, Russian publicistic literature, stigmatization | 962 | |||||
1782 | The paper presents the optimization of the molecular geometry of metallocenes by two different density functionals. The resulting structural and spectral data are compared with the experimental values. The conclusion is based on the calculation method of the natural valence orbitals of the value of the magnitude of the donor-acceptor and dative interactions in the formation of metallocenes. Following the procedure of decomposion of the energy, the values of the ionic and covalent character of bonds between the metal and carbon atoms were calculated. Keywords: density functional theory, metallocenes, ionic and covalent character of bonds | 962 | |||||
1783 | The article deals with the intonation of emphatic (highly emotional) speech of the modern Russian literary language with the purpose of revealing innovations in the intonation. The research is carried out on the performances staged in the State Academic Maly Theatre. We have analyzed 15 hours of sounding speech which allowed us to discover all the variety of the intonation patterns in the modern Russian language. As a result of the carried out research, we have revealed the following changes in the intonation of the modern Russian language: a great number of the occurrence of the mid-level ending in final sense-groups and the use of the high-narrow rise at the end of declarative and exclamatory sentences. We give a detailed consideration to the occurrence and meanings of these intonation endings combined with various scales. In addition to that, we first observe the use of the fall-rise in emphatic speech of the modern Russian language, as well as the use of the gradually ascending stepping scale, the descending scandent and sliding scales. Thus, the present research shows that the intonation of emphatic speech of the modern Russian language is much more colourful than it has been described before. The obtained results make a contribution to the suprasegmental phonetics and can be applied by the Russian teachers in practice, and they can also be of great use for foreign students learning the Russian intonation. Keywords: intonation, emphatic speech, innovation, intonation pattern, intonation scale, intonation ending | 962 | |||||
1784 | The article considers the didactic essence of mobile teaching aids in foreign language education. Despite a number of impressive studies on the use of mobile technologies for foreign language teaching, there are few questions and problems that require detailed study for more effective implementation of these tools in the practice of language education. The term «mobile technologies» should be understood as portable devices with mobile applications and the ability to access the Internet. The didactic essence of these teaching aids application is the creation of multi-sensory learning systems complexes that are aimed at the interactive nature of learning, taking into account the personal characteristics of the students. Mobile learning is very closely related to the electronic and distance education, which is connected with any portable device, so that training does not have a rigid binding to the location of the trainee. In other words, mobile learning technologies reduce the restrictions of education. Using specialized capabilities of Pads and mobile phones will allow not only to increase the students’ interest in learning languages, but also significantly expand the technical possibilities of disciplines teaching in the field of information technology. So mobile devices contain a huge didactic potential for their application in teaching a foreign language in the university educational process, which undoubtedly requires further study, including the development of software and methodological support. Keywords: foreign language, mobile learning tools, professionally oriented foreign language, Web Quest technology | 962 | |||||
1785 | The paper suggests an etymological analysis of the proper names of heroes – characters of “heroes’ songs”, and mythological and folklore images. As it was found out the nominative units origin from stems meaning “magic, sorcery”, “witchcraft”, “fortunetelling”. The names, in their turn, form a semantic base for verbs meaning “beat”, “knock, whack”, “crush”, “twist, screw”, “roll”, i.e. – verbs denoting heavy physical impact onto the subject. The harder the applied effort is, the more malicious is the mythic character. The analysis of names of mythic ancestors, good and wicked spirits, sorcerers, magicians and wizards showed that they are widely represented in the system of nomination and in the system of word building of the Selkup language. | 961 | |||||
1786 | The article bears some consideration upon the manners of language verbalization of time-concept in the Ket’s language, particularly, basic models of metaphorical conceptualization of time are extracted. They represent the abstract category of time on the basis of metaphorical mapping “space-time”. | 961 | |||||
1787 | The article is devoted to business education at high school. The aim of business education is to develop pupils' business culture through advertising projection. The facultative practical work «Bases of advertising activity», first, helps to pupils irrespective of the future speciality to develop business abilities. Secondly, to fix business values. Thirdly, to master the conceptual device on bases of advertising activity, to get basic knowledge, skills necessary for orientation and existence in the modern market world, to create bases for further study of economic disciplines in Universities. In a result to generate business culture. Keywords: business culture, advertising projection, advertising, facultative practical work, business, pupils of high school, pedagogics | 961 | |||||
1788 | In the article realization of innovative technologies of pedagogical diagnostics is considered as a factor of maintenance of training quality of the officer staff. On the basis of the analysis of the theory and practice of training of the officer staff the basic contradictions, the purposes, conditions and laws of carrying out of pedagogical diagnostics in educational process of military high school are allocated. Keywords: pedagogical diagnostics, vocational training of the officer staff, innovative technologies of pedagogical diagnostics | 961 | |||||
1789 | The article is devoted to the problem of synthetic interpretation of the Varangian question, to the problem of the value of foreign elements in the process of the early-medieval states formation. The author analyzed modern problems and prospects in solving «the Varangian question». The author analyzed the modern condition of «the Varangian problem» researching contemporary educational and scientific literature on Russian history. Keywords: xenocracy, the Norman problem, myth, self-consciousness, interdisciplinary approach | 961 | |||||
1790 | The article shows basic tendencies of development of comic issues in drama works in the Russian emigration literature of 1920th: small genres and the humour plays, which subjects are not related to emigration at first prevail, and then the main role is played by traditional forms of the comedy and the theme of exile, and synthetic forms. Problems of poetics of genres are considered on an example of works by A. Averchenko, I. Surgucheva, A. Rennikova, N. Evreinova. Keywords: Comic, dramatic art, poetics, Russian йmigrй literature, comedy, cabaret, humour, satire, synthesis of genres, Evreinov, Averchenko, Rennikov, Surguchev, theater | 961 | |||||
1791 | Experimental researches of stability to asphyxia at preimaginal stages of malarial mosquito Anopheles atroparvus are presented. In experiments of larvae and pupae of mosquitoes were in vessels with water without access to atmospheric air. The stability depends on concentration of the dissolved oxygen in water in different temperature conditions. At alternative concentration of oxygen in water two opposite tendencies of speed of destruction of preimaginal stages of development are fixed. At concentration of oxygen of 0 mg/l in three set modes of temperatures (15 °С; 23 °С; 30 °С) stability of individuals to an asphyxia from I age to pupae is increased. In the water sated with oxygen at initial concentration of oxygen of 7–8 mg/l, on the contrary – larvae of younger age differed the raised viability in comparison with individuals of advanced ages. Keywords: кровососущие комары, преимагинальные стадии, регуляция численности популяции, асфиксия | 961 | |||||
1792 | This article is the result of theoretic study of reserves of management quality improvement of pedagogical research in regional educational politics. The system of estimated indicators of management quality is examined. Keywords: pedagogical research management; management quality; criteria and indicators of management quality of pedagogical research | 961 | |||||
1793 | The article considers the features of the professional training of the middle level medical staff (determined by training practices and further labour activity) in the context of valeological support of students individual education plans, which results in independent decisions – safe for personal health of trainees and people with health problems – taken by students in problem situations. Keywords: student of medical college, valeological support, individuality, module educational technology, andragogical training philosophy | 961 | |||||
1794 | The article describes the implementation of competence-based approach to industry solutions SAP HR. The material in this article is based on the analysis of inernational and national experience with different business models, taking into account industry-specific oil and gas companies such as Shell, ConocoPhillips, TNK-BP, ExxonMobil Rosneft, Gazprom Neft, OAO Tyumentransgas, OAO Surgutgazprom, TNK-BP Biznesservis. The ideas and materials of this article have found practical application in scientific research work in the direction of “intelligent information and communications monitoring and control systems” (2010). Keywords: SAP HR, expertise, business processes, ERP systems, functions, model, mechanism, management of personnel | 961 | |||||
1795 | We consider our world as a brane embedded in the 5D space-time which is a solution of the 5D Einstein equations with Л-term. We do not solve the modied Einstein equations on the brane, instead of this we use exact solution of 5D Einstein equations. The energy-momentum tensor appears as the Israel jump condition on the brane. This tensor at the innity gives positive tension in one side of the wormhole and negative tension in the second part of the wormhole space-time. In the case of the AdS5 model without Randall-Sundrum asymptotic we found the wormhole metric which satises the energy conditions. Keywords: wormhole, Randall-Sundrum model, multidimensional theory, energy conditions | 961 | |||||
1796 | The article considers the question of influence of research activities in the system of continuous education at the professional career of the contemporary teacher. Keywords: research and development activities, professional training, the certification of work, career, career growth | 961 | |||||
1797 | In the article, with the involvement of previously unpublished archival materials, some aspects of daily life of professional entertainments at the court of Peter I: buffoons and dwarves are investigated. Keywords: Petrine era, courtyard of the monarch, the laughter culture, buffoons | 961 | |||||
1798 | Following our recent results [P. Yu. Moshin, A. A. Reshetnyak, Nucl. Phys. B 888 (2014) 92], we discuss the notion of finite BRST-antiBRST transformations, with a doublet λa, a = 1, 2, of anticommuting (both global and field-dependent) Grassmann parameters. We find an explicit Jacobian corresponding to this change of variables in the theories with gauge group. Special field-dependent BRST-antiBRST transformations for the Yang-Mills path integral with sa-potential (functionally-dependent) parameters λa = saΛ generated by a finite even-valued functional Λ and the anticommuting generators sa of BRST-antiBRST transformations, amount to a precise change of the gauge-fixing functional. This proves the independence of the vacuum functional under such BRST-antiBRST transformations and leads to presence of modified Ward identities. The form of transformation parameters that induces a change of the gauge in the path integral is found and is exactly evaluated for connecting two arbitrary Rξ-like gauges. The finite field-dependent BRST-antiBRST transformations are used to generalize the Gribov horizon functional h0, in the Landau gauge in BRST-antiBRST setting, in the Gribov– Zwanziger model and to find hξ corresponding to general Rξ-like gauges in the form compatible with gauge-independent S-matrix. Keywords: gauge theories, BRST-antiBRST Lagrangian quantization, Yang-Mills theory, Gribov–Zwanziger model, field-dependent BRST-antiBRST transformations | 961 | |||||
1799 | In spite of the fact that the importance and need for teaching technologies in the educational process (at all levels) is clearly recognized, the precise and universal classifications of teaching technologies (regardless of the subject area) are currently nonexistent. There is a vast variety of names and types of teaching technologies, including numerous authors’ technologies, developed by both creative and professional communities and individual teachers. One may observe lack of system, scientific basis and unified approaches to the classifications of pedagogical, educational and teaching technologies. The author justifies the specifics and the necessity to consider the instrumentality principle in the process of classification of foreign languages teaching technologies, and states the main tools of foreign languages teaching technologies. The principle of instrumentality as the primary basis for the classification of teaching technologies requires to take tools (basis) of the subject teaching into account. The classification of foreign languages teaching technologies may include mono-tool (poly-target), poly-tool (mono-target) and tool-target teaching technologies. Each type of teaching technologies is illustrated by the scheme of implementation model. The third type of teaching technologies (tool-target) is the most accurately and exactly formulated and effectively implemented type. The article includes some examples of technologies of teaching foreign languages based on the principle of instrumentality (evidence from the titles of foreign languages teaching technologies found in the articles published in the well-known Russian scientific journal “Foreign languages at school”). In spite of the fact that the importance and need for teaching technologies in the educational process (at all levels) is clearly recognized, the precise and universal classifications of teaching technologies (regardless of the subject area) are currently nonexistent. There is a vast variety of names and types of teaching technologies, including numerous authors’ technologies, developed by both creative and professional communities and individual teachers. One may observe lack of system, scientific basis and unified approaches to the classifications of pedagogical, educational and teaching technologies. The author justifies the specifics and the necessity to consider the instrumentality principle in the process of classification of foreign languages teaching technologies, and states the main tools of foreign languages teaching technologies. The principle of instrumentality as the primary basis for the classification of teaching technologies requires to take tools (basis) of the subject teaching into account. The classification of foreign languages teaching technologies may include mono-tool (poly-target), poly-tool (mono-target) and tool-target teaching technologies. Each type of teaching technologies is illustrated by the scheme of implementation model. The third type of teaching technologies (tool-target) is the most accurately and exactly formulated and effectively implemented type. The article includes some examples of technologies of teaching foreign languages based on the principle of instrumentality (evidence from the titles of foreign languages teaching technologies found in the articles published in the well-known Russian scientific journal “Foreign languages at school”). Keywords: teaching technology, classifications of teaching technologies, foreign languages, foreign language teaching, principle of instrumentality | 961 | |||||
1800 | The article describes the model of financial competence for middle school students. It is based on the analysis of the results of PISA and structure of citizens’ everyday financial life. Financial competence is complex and includes such knowledge and skills as the ability to form family budget, estimate possibilities of income increase, prevent income decrease and costs increase, use calculations to estimate income and costs, read and understand financial documents, differentiate financial documents and promotional materials, understand own customer’s and taxpayer’s rights and duties. It also includes the ability to protect customer’s rights and critically analyse information. This competence can be formed and developed through a series of three educational interactive quest games for students aged 12–15. Each game is dedicated to one of the aspects: personal finance, banking services and investment tools. During the game students visit check-points corresponding to financial institutions such as banks, insurance companies, businesses, trading markets, legal advisors, etc. At each check point participants study general information and complete real-life tasks in order to reach the objective of the game. These games were experimentally held in school and open education which proved their effectiveness. The article contains some examples of tasks from these games to illustrate their methodical basis. Keywords: financial literacy, educational quest, middle school, financial competence | 961 |