Home – Home – Jornals – "Philosophy of Education" 2016 number 5

The relevance of the research topic is due to the continuing crisis, the local destruction of the social, natural life and global catastrophism. Global destructive processes are becoming more extensive, including in the education system. In order to take the urgent life-preserving extreme measures, it is necessary to timely recognize the devastating parasitic processes, determine their essence and content. The purpose of research is to examine a high level of organic planetary life, the social one, and to identify two opposing interrelated processes of self-motion of matter: 1) social producers which provide concentration of social matter, free-living social systems which contribute to increasing self-development and social diversity in society (C-civilization); 2) social decomposers which lead to simplification and destruction of social matter until its self-destruction (P-civilization). It is shown that in the confrontation of civilizations, the education sphere increasingly becomes the key one, supplying the right people either to C-civilization or to P-civilization. This process has acquired a global dimension, has an international content; it is required to study it on the national and global levels. The following conclusion is made: as any sphere of society, education being exposed to polar civilizations is also polarizing. The education system in the XXI century exist in almost all countries of the world, and, formally speaking, it performs the above-indicated social functions. However, this is just a form; in reality, under the influence of polar civilizations on education, one and the same external form of training organization may be filled with fundamentally different, polar contents.