When Will Educational Reforms in Russia Come to The End?

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10.2991/iscfec-18.2019.156How to use a DOI?

Keywords

a reform of education in Russia; global labor division; a partial individual; versatile-developed personality; self-sufficiency of economy; historical subjectivity of Russia.

Abstract

The radical breakdown of Soviet life order, that occurred in 1991-1993, required a fundamental change of society’s ideological supports and institutions. The system of education, as one of such basic institutions, became the object of reforms, which have not been completed so far. A logical question about the goal of such reforms arises naturally, but it is hardly possible to get a response to it from governmental officials. To proceed not from declarations, but from real contents of these reforms, it becomes clear that they gear at adapting the tasks of education to the needs of the country "returned to the fold of the world civilization". The last notion was understood as part of Russia’s integration into the system of global labor division as a primary resource supplier for economically developed countries of the capitalist core. The Soviet system of education, oriented to providing the USSR with an independent place in the world as a superpower, became redundant under the new conditions. It was aimed at developing students’ ability of comprehensive operational thinking. For a country whose claims are limited to the level of a regional power, it is enough to have just a few competent specialists to support its economy and defense capability at a level sufficient for the comfortable existence of local oligarchic elite. However, as it is shown by historical experience, the global elite views Russia as a country that suffered a crushing defeat in the Cold War, therefore, it is demanded a full and unconditional surrender. The Russian Federation has no choice but to rely on its own strengths in such situation. That means that reforms of the national educational system that have been going on for almost three decades in a row are in flagrant contradiction with this new reality. Russia faces a historic challenge and is able give an appropriate answer to it only one way – by restoring the Soviet educational system, its fundamental principles at the least. Only then the reform of education in the country will be finally over.

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