The collection offered to the reader considers various aspects of culture and education as its basic element. Scientific articles are devoted to the study and description of current problems of modern art education ; Cultural Meanings of Higher Education ; updating and development of the conceptual and categorical apparatus of pedagogy and education ; ethno-cultural education of students in the rural school of the Ural region ; ways to form a culture of pedagogical goal-setting in a future teacher ; organization of cultural and leisure activities of preschool children in the process of mastering art ; Self-Education as a Paradigm of 21st Century Education; conceptual characteristics of the phenomenon of speech culture of the individual, as well as other topical problems of modern cultural studies and pedagogy . The collection is addressed to teachers, students, graduate students and teachers of pedagogical universities and colleges, all interested in topical issues of cultural studies and pedagogy