Home – Home – Jornals – Professional Education in the Modern World 2014 number 2

Education is a unique sphere of public life, where the interests are intersected of all its subjects from the state to the every individual. It provides the continuity and stability of social life, while creating the conditions for its changes and dynamic development. The construction of education on the basis of democratic principles not only provides it with the opportunity for joining the common current of the world civilization, but also it becomes its daily necessity. The authors seek to raise and answer the questions: why the analysis of the issues of the responsibility of power towards education is necessary for the democratization of education? Why the problems of democracy are among the most topical for power and educational policy? Education is a key to the survival and spread of democracy: democracy is needed not only by the social institutions. It is also needed by the active citizens who have the knowledge, skills and values of democratic life, without which a democratic culture cannot prosper. The concept of democracy, based on the forms of government or collective management of the rule of the majority, being perceived as a system of self-government through the mechanisms of private property, civil rights and obligations (the principles of individual freedom and individual responsibility), is required to address today to the educational level of the person. There is being formed a clear idea of the responsibility of education towards authorities and society, connected with the understanding that the higher the education and upbringing of citizens, the stronger is their desire to understand democratic values and to maintain them.