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"Philosophy of Education"

2015 year, number 1

The influence of geopolitical factors on the formation of education

I. A. Pfanenshtil, M. P. Yatsenko
Siberian Federal University, Svobodnyy prospekt, 82, Krasnoyarsk
Keywords: geopolitical factors, multipolarity, bipolarity, universality, education, education, upbringing

Abstract

The article notes that, at the present stage, the mankind is faced with a system-global mega-crisis, which is linked to the fact that mankind in its development has come to a kind of anthropological border, when all the old meanings of Homo sapiens have been exhausted. The indicated transformation becomes so widespread in the world that we can talk about a certain trend that threatens the foundations of modern civilization. According to some scholars, it is not by chance that the restoration of bipolarity in the beginning of new millennium is associated primarily with the prospects of dynamic development of the Asia-Pacific region, more precisely, China. The coming bipolarity is defined by the supporters of this concept as a "civilizational" opposition. They believe that it is necessary to create a predictable, fair and humane world; and such a radical change in the current world order involves a transition from a unipolar to a multipolar world. The authors believe that today, in the geopolitical theorizing it makes sense to shift the focus from the global picture (of the research of world order) to the "middle level". An optimal unit of analysis can be a region as a kind of geopolitical, geo-economic and geo-cultural integrity, demonstrating a dynamic moment in the geopolitical analysis (the cross-border nature, variability of contours, change of the dominant regional power, cultural, ethnic and demographic transformation). In our opinion, the attempts of regional geopolitical analysis of Europe or the former Soviet Union are also not without meaning. The ideology of forcible globalization leads to the neglect of unique regional experience having centuries-old traditions. However, the regional experience of sustainable existence appears the most interesting, because a) it traces the rapidly changing real life; b) it is accessible, because it is not presented by a dry scientific language, but is formulated on the everyday common level; c) it is often associated with the most important instinct of self-preservation of specific social units, that is, its importance is confirmed on the anthropological level. Instead of a Western-type world in which the dominant positions are occupied by the ground-laying parameters of the Western rationalist civilization, there should arise a new civilization on the basis of organic combination of unity and indivisibility of the international community, on one hand, and the diversification and diversity of peoples, cultures, religions, on the other. In today's world, education is seen not only as an information-communication tool and a mechanism of translation and dissemination of knowledge, but also as a social institution of spiritual-moral development of the individual as the basis of socialization of personality, its active inclusion into various spheres of social life.