Education and a new approach to national safety
S. V. Kamashev1, N. V. Nalivayko1,2
1Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, 28 Viluiskaya St., Novosibirsk, Russia, 630126
2Institute of Philosophy and Law of SB RAS, 8 Nikolaeva St., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
Keywords: education, national safety, globalization, geopolitics, structural socio-cultural changes, concepts of upbringing, development of economy, science and culture
Abstract
Russian society today, being in a state of deep structural social-cultural transformation, is facing the need to develop new educational concepts that meet the requirements of society’s development. The transition of Russian society to the current phase of development has led to realization of the fact that the meanings, stereotypes of activity and behavior, educational and training concepts should be subject to complete rethinking in the changed social, political or other conditions. The specifics of Russian education in the new geopolitical and global conditions, the study of the nature and content of domesic education are the most important issues for the philosophy of education, especially in the context of formation of national safety of modern Russia. (This is very important because, after the collapse of the USSR as a result of the Belavezha Accords, the balance of power in the world has significantly changed: the world was no longer bipolar, and the West imposes on Russia its own rules on the world stage, is trying to create a new world order at the expense of Russia, which mat lead to unexpected onsequences all over the world). In such circumstances, the society’s safety is largely conditioned by the factor that education provides, along with professional skills and orientations, the bases of moral and spiritual upbringing, reproduces the social (the set of mental and cognitive programs of human activity in the globalized world). From the national security perspective, the most important task of Russian education (upbringing) is, on one hand, the formation the students’ entrepreneurship, rationality, the ability to make their own informed decisions in the situation of choice, predicting the possible consequences, as well as the mobility, dynamism, and, on the other, the upbringing of the people able to become worthy citizens of Russia, who love their family, their homeland, their work, ready to moral behavior and performance of civic duties; willing and able to cooperate and have the sense of resposibility for the fate of the country.
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