Home – Home – Jornals – Professional Education in the Modern World 2015 number 2

Contemporary Russian socio-humanistic cognition is experiencing an active process of foundation the integrative science of education, which complies with general laws of integration and differentiation of scientific knowledge. The phenomenon of education includes issues transformed in different historic contexts, while conforming to their specific space and time. The problem of interaction between education and culture in a wider context both prevails over and determines the strategic trends of developing the integrative science of education. The most general principle of interaction between education and culture can be defined as follows: the system of education and culture have to conform to each other. The information revolution has fueled a new type of sociocultural organization - a culture of information society. The research is aimed at explicating the main aspects of interaction between education and culture that determine the strategic trends of developing the integrative science of education. The article reviews the role of philosophy of education in the integrative science of education and provides the detailed analysis of the following trends in the integrative science of education: - the problem of shaping and rendering the cultural and spiritual values; - changes in sociocultural environment and the problem of preserving a personality; - the problem of daily awareness development; - the problem of philosophy of education foundation; - development of compensatory mechanism in carrying out variative and level-based education; - development of pedagogical experiment theory. The paper makes conclusion that these strategic trends surround the primary attractor which is the problem of forming new human being mentality, who is able to communicate volitionally in the information society and be preserved as a personality either. In this context, the problem of keeping and rendering the value core of Russian education that preserves a personality and ensures further progressive development of modern Russia is the major challenge of integrative science of education.