Home – Home – Jornals – Professional Education in the Modern World 2014 number 3

The paper is aimed at analyzing the process of humanism and humanitarian founda­tions of Russian educational paradigm. The article deals with education as a mechanism of values transmission, which reveals the relation between humanism and humanitarian fundamentals of educational system in Russia. The author points out that there is a pro­cess of general values ’ disintegration in the modern global world; it influences educa­tional system. Education is supposed to be understood as a mechanism of socio-cultural heritage of society. Global crises require reconsideration of the progress and enlighten­ment way, which humanity is moving through; it makes the problem of education hu­manization to be urgent and important one. The paper reveals the main approaches to the notion “humanism”, represents its kinds and demonstrates relation between human­ism and processes of humanization and dehumanization in society. Humanism was often understood as a utopia in modern Russian society and wasn’t expressed in social ideals. The paper analyzes the main approaches to humanization of education and considers the main historic stages of establishing humanitarian fundamentals in education of Russia. The modern model of education in Russia was founded during the Renaissance and the Enlightenment according to the German one. It assumed a lot of liberal arts subjects aimed at forming human morality and engineering aimed at cognizing the world by means of the mind. The concept “humanism” assumed class-determined meaning which displaced human and civilized meaning. There was teaching staff trained in the field of humanities in post-revolution school. The teaching staff was not able to adapt to the governmental policy in education. Education still remains the major element of social humanistic practice, due to its universality, independence from the political, economic and market situations in spite of all attempts to scrapping. This social institution keeps elements ofhumanistic pedagogical technologies of the past and new ways of humanistic pedagogical paradigm are searched exactly in education. The article makes conclusion that contradiction between social and cultural needs of modern society and the educa­tional system occurs in humanitarian fundamentals of the Russian educational para­digm. It is mentioned that educational system does not respond to the needs of modern society due to the loss of humanistic goals in society’s ideology, outdated methods and applying of old techniques and teaching methods.