Contextual learning: complexities and contradictions of 21st century education
The author reveals the ambiguity of transformations in higher education in Russia and a number of contradictory provisions on the implementation of Federal State Educational Standards, which can be smoothed out by a contextual approach. In the system of military education, the context indicates the military-professional orientation, the nature of the process of operation and use of weapons and military equipment in solving specific training and combat tasks. At the same time, the peculiarity of the use of units of the clans and types of the armed forces determines the direction of pedagogical methods, technologies and means. The analysis of classified approaches to contextual learning can be used to organize the educational process of military educational institutions, to select the means, methods and forms of pedagogical techniques in the system of higher and additional education for military specialists.