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"Philosophy of Education"

2015 year, number 1

Features of educational system in the conditions of globalization

K. K. Begalinova1, A. S. Begalinov2
1Kazakh National Satpaev Technical University, Kazachstan, Almaty, Saptayeva str., 22
2JSC В«“Khabar” Agency», Kazachstan, Almaty
Keywords: education system, upbringing, globalization, integration, anti-globalization, mass culture, industrial values, technocratism, humanism humanization, spiritual-moral culture

Abstract

The article discusses the features of education-upbringing system in the context of globalization. It is shown that globalization is brought to life by the objective processes and has a direct impact on the modern system of education, increasing the negative trends. We are talking about the scientific-technological revolution, the constant increase in scientific and technological progress in the field of transport, communications, enabling further computerization of society, the expansion of multimedia, visual space. This civilization is the media industry, which now becomes not only an independent, but also a dominant field of life activity of the society and person. Its influence is particularly important in the field of education and upbringing. A feature of modern education-upbringing process is also conditioned by the paradigm of technological civilization, which subordinates the human being to the machine and technology. Technocratism permeates all levels and areas of social life, all aspects of training and education to such extent that spirituality becomes one-sided. This cannot but affect the human being him/herself. On one hand, the technologization of the society, the progress in the field of engineering sciences contribute to the improving the life of the human being, improving his/her everyday life, raising his/her status. On the other hand, such technologization dehumanizes the person. The person, losing his/her personal qualities, becomes the average person. In this regard, it is noted that in the modern upbringing there should be strengthened the spiritually-moral component; the humanistic component of upbringing also needs understanding. The changed spiritual situation of the beginning of the III millennium guides education in general and the higher one in particular towards a new methodology. A universal logic arising from a holistic worldview plays a role of a general methodology of modern higher education. This means that it is necessary to consider the human being and the world in harmony and unity; to understand the person as a whole and integral being, combining the spiritual and the material, the general and the particular, the intellectual and the moral, the personal and the cosmic. Such combination is formed through the system of education and upbringing, including the training based on the principles of humanization and humanities, the subject-object relationship between teacher and student, on the principles of activity of the student and the teacher, on the moral principles of interpersonal relations between them. The new methodology requires new methods of training, new educational technologies.