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

There was a fundamental change in social relations in Russian society at the turn of XX-XXI centuries. In these circumstances, education system, as an institutional basis

of society, has undergone major transformations; it means the old system can’t operate efficiently in new conditions, but at the same time there is no understanding of what kind new paradigm of education should be. Many reformers suggest the most successful ex­amples of development in the West as ideal models aimed at promoting and developing national education system. The examples of western development are supposed to be introduced and applied in Russia. The paper analyzes foundation and development of education on the example of Western societies; it demonstrates that each national educa­tion system has always been founded and developed in well-defined social and cultural conditions. The author makes conclusion that total applying of experience of even the most successful Western examples and their development is not suitable for education in Russia due to centuries-old national cultural, scientific and educational traditions.