Higher Defectology Education Development in Russia in the xxth– the First Decade of the XXIst Centuries and Prospects of its Development

Abstract

The article aims to identify valuable-semantic reference points in historical and pedagogical
experience of professional defectology education establishing and development that define the strategy
of training quality and content of modern higher defectology education. The leading methods of the
research were: theoretical analysis of historical-pedagogical, psychology-pedagogical literature, and
archival materials; comparative-contrastive analysis of legislative, regulatory and legal documents;
application of statistical data to assess processes in the sphere of higher defectology education in
Russia; historical and logical method. The article provides theoretical-methodological and scientificpedagogical prerequisites that determined the establishing and development of defectology education
in Russia during the covered period; criteria defining higher defectology education in Russia are
proposed; stages of defectology education development in Russia in the the XXth
and the first decade
of the XXIst centuries are revealed; prospects of defectology education development focused on interdisciplinarity of knowledge(chemistry, organic chemistry, biology & analytical chemistry) and
student-centrality in the conditions of transition to a level system of vocational training are featured.
Materials of the research can be used by teachers of higher education schools to analyze fundamental
issues of higher defectology education: development and perfect tasks, methods and techniques aimed
to train speech pathologists.