EDUCATION DURING THE EPOCH OF CHANGES
V. M. Kondratyev, L. F. Matronina
Keywords: education strategy, irrational and rational, reflexive knowledge
Pages: 6-11
Abstract
An epoch of changes is characterized as an epoch of structural changes in society; and education, as a process of person's gaining conscious self-dependence in exploring the space and time of his/her life. In the center of author's attention is the mechanism of the social changes influence on the quality of education, this mechanism being considered as a system phenomenon. The basic elements of the educational system are educational, productive and leisure activity. The characteristic feature of our today's life is the change of proportion between rational and irrational elements in the structure of various kinds of activity. The Internet, mass media, advertising foster the strengthening of the irrational in society's life, the rational being restricted to industrial sphere. The changes in the content and methods of education in school and the high education establishments have led to decline of reflexive knowledge. As a result, we see the diminishing of the degree of conscious self-dependence among students, workers and citizens. Russia is in need of development of a new educational strategy.
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