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"Philosophy of Education"

2009 year, number 1

ABOUT THE "POSTMODERNISM" OF THE REFORM OF RUSSIAN EDUCATION

B. O. Mayer
Keywords: double bind, pattern, education, public consciousness, postmodernism, reform
Pages: 35-43

Abstract

The "postmodernist" features of the reform of Russian education are analyzed. There are given the opinions of the reform participants: from the teachers to the people who "advance" the reform. It is substantiated that in the sphere of the education reform there has formed a situation of "schizophrenia" of public consciousness on the basis of  "double bind " pattern, which regularly reproduces itself and leads to degradation of the education system. Moreover, a hypothesis is put forward that, despite the seeming localness of the current reform of Russian education, the ways of its development will define, in many respects, the image of the future of the entire world because