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

The author considers paradoxical feature in value orientations and students be­havior on the basis of socio-economic factors and cultural attitudes of modern society which are revealed in the current education system. Paradox of opposite conclusions from the similar empirical information, ’’centaur-problem” of value orientations (trans­values) is revealed in the eclectic combination of alternative paradigm principles; they are technocratic views and humanistic ones. The paper demonstrates sustainable social factors of student values in Russia. The main tendency of student values transformation has antisocial vector and leads to decreasing of quality of education. Social and educa­tional practice which forms positive values in Russia should become innovation strategic benchmark in promotion of society.