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"Philosophy of Education"

2012 year, number 6

PHILOSOPHY OFEDUCATION AS A METHODOLOGY OF SCIENTIFIC STUDYING OF EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY

N. M. Churinov
Keywords: philosophy of education, methodology of scientific knowledge, educational activity
Pages: 4-11

Abstract

It has become known today that no institution of the Russian higher education is included into the world list of two hundred best higher education institutions. There is voiced a perplexed exclamation: «That is it. Here is the result of the reforms». It has been 20 years already that the higher education community has been struggling with the excesses of the officials, with the ministries, agencies, departments, and specific governing bodies of education whose mentioning would tell nothing to anybody today. It is difficult to establish today the identity of the leading higher education institutions of the country which, so to speak, heartily welcomed our countrys joining the BolognaAgreement, explained the necessity of this cursed EGE (Unified State Exams), proved the necessity of improvement of the EGE, of two-level or three-level education, training of bachelors, masters, specialists, which are not needed in industry because the experts are needed there. There are being actively introduced some credit-rating systems which have turned teachers into some kind of accountants (they are to sit down and calculate some abstract points);there have been composed the state standards of the first, second, and third generation, according to which the departments are to compose curricula all year round, etc. In such conditions, philosophy of education, as the methodology of educational activity, should be used as the basis of adequate reform projects; it should demonstrate how the reform projects need to be constructed in order not to interrupt the link of times and the connection with those national traditions that were considered quite recently by the world pedagogic community as the best examples of educational activity.