Rimma A. Litvak’s scientific contributions

The article reveals the urgency of addressing the students’ ecological and legal culture of professional socialization. There are socio-political, institutional-organizational and psychological-pedagogical factors of the problem. The article is devoted to the ecological and legal culture in the socio-cultural environment. The environmental education includes a development of personal environmental values in the socio-cultural development. The environmental education as a component of socialization is a means of the educational environment. The ecological and legal culture of students is a complex socio-cultural and psycho-pedagogical problem of the search for perspective directions and technologies in educational environment. The environmental education should have a structure in the education system.

The article reveals the problem’s urgency of the students’ youth development in the conditions of the Olympiad movement. It analyzes the scientific views on the essence and significance of Olympiads on subjects. It defines the research key concepts and presents the scientists’ positions on the concept essence of “Olympiad”. The article specifies the objective and tasks of the Olympiads. It stresses the importance of Olympiads in improving the training quality of qualified specialists. It suggests the author’s understanding of the Olympiad educational potential on pedagogy and psychology. It points out the need of interactive technologies for the development of communicative, research, design and other competences. The article gives a brief description of individual practice-oriented competitions providing development of creative initiative activities, students’ mobility and their intellectual abilities.