Trends in the development of secondary vocational education and prospects for scientific research

The development of secondary vocational education in Russia under the influence of socio-economic factors requires full-fledged scientific and methodological support. Among scientific research, an important role is played by works related to forecasting, which is not limited to attempts to predict the future, but prepares for the adoption of promising management decisions, creates a meaningful ground for frontier developments of a scientific and scientific-methodological nature.Many aspects of the development of secondary vocational education are deservedly called “eternal”, since the issues of material and technical support, qualification and training of teaching staff, the ratio of fundamental and practical orientation acquire new meanings at any stage of socio-economic development of society. It seems that the development of vocational education takes place according to the laws of reciprocating motion or a pendulum. From the pragmatic mission of providing the economy with personnel, to the humanitarian mission of comprehensive and harmonious personal development, bypassing the state of equilibrium. At the same time, the previous configurations of the system have never been repeated in full yet. This suggests that it is advisable to apply to many research topics repeatedly, without fear of coming to previously obtained results.Modern pedagogy of vocational education needs reliable information about current topics, which makes it possible to make research really useful for the development of practice, to prepare researchers to solve problems of a proactive nature.