The Place of Education in Modernization Processes

Abstract

The article analyzes the latest steps taken by Russian authorities in reforming the system of education, and substantiates society's strongly felt need for the reforms to be liberated from bureaucratic dictatorship and secrecy. It demonstrates the close connection between the reform of education and the rapidly dropping quality of education, emphasizing that the scale of higher professional education in Russia does not correspond to the pace of the country's social and economic development. It argues that the degree of freedom offered to teachers in the performance of their professional functions constitutes the actual indicator of the degree of democracy of the social structure.

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English translation © 2015 Taylor & Francis, from the Russian text © 2013 “Sotsiologiia obrazovaniia.” “Mesto obrazovaniia v modernizatsionnykh protsessakh,” Sotsiologiia obrazovaniia, 2013, no. 7, pp. 58–66.

V.L. Benin is a candidate of philosophical sciences, a doctor of pedagogical sciences, and head of the department of culturology and the social economic disciplines at Bashkir M. Akmulla State Pedagogical University.

Translated by Kim Braithwaite.

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V.L. Benin

V.L. Benin is a candidate of philosophical sciences, a doctor of pedagogical sciences, and head of the department of culturology and the social economic disciplines at Bashkir M. Akmulla State Pedagogical University.