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Человек будущего и современная образовательная политика
A Man of the Future and the Modern Education Policy

Author(s): Vladimir Gukhman
Subject(s): Philosophy, Education, Sociology of Education
Published by: Международное философско-космологическое общество
Keywords: cultural elite; knowledge cult; information culture knowledge society; self-education; explanation and understanding languages;

Summary/Abstract: The problem of cultural elite forming out of high-educated men is discussed in the article. The basic education directives for problem decision are: self-education in and out of education process, the integral (natural-scientific and humanitarian) knowledge cult, “aristocratism of spirit and thought”, productive social creativity of the cultural elite. The article purpose is: to attract the attention of education doctrine authors to the education methodology reforming necessity for the re-orientation to the training of cultural elite as an postindustrial knowledge society social moving power. The methodological aspects of the modern education individualization are discussed: self-education and the independent thinking training, scientific inter-disciplinarity, relations between knowledge and truth, between explanation and understanding languages, the re-orientation from social-oriented to personality-oriented education priorities with serious contradictions between them, the want of intellectual and spiritual-moral directive for knowledge cult, self-perfectibility and general, in particular, information culture of the society overwhelming majority.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 8
  • Page Range: 41-54
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Russian