A Project to Purify Education of the Superficial and Return to the Roots. Review of the Joint Monograph “Modern Russian Education: Challenges and Answers”

Abstract

The monograph provides an analysis of the condition of the education system in Russia and the process of its renewal. The authors discuss issues of for-profit education, the training of professionals in the higher education system, the development of values, thinking and worldview of a person during the educational process in detail and consider the problems of reforming school education. They highlight the qualitative analysis of the state of the higher education system before and after Russia’s ratification the Bologna Declaration, outline the functional foundations of education in the Soviet period and formulate the results of the reform efforts of recent decades. The authors substantiate the conclusion that there has been no unified reform of Russian education – a well-targeted and working for the interests of the nation state and society – for the last thirty years. And there is still no such reform. There are only a number of reform trends coming from various initiators, and there are vague public proposals for what the future of Russian education should be. The authors predict that it will be developed as an independent structure in the global education services market under conditions of many determining factors.