Cultural foundations of the educational system and legal upbringing in the conditions of contemporary political and legal reality transformation

Abstract

The article focusses on the special nature of system structural changes occurring in modern Russian society, which directly reflect large-scale changes associated with internal and external aspects of integration of social, political, and legal institutions in the modern political and legal reality of the state, which significantly expands the instrumental sphere in the system of legal regulation, both in the general social context and in the strategic directions of the functioning of the Russian state. The authors have defined educational and legal-educational environment special spheres of modern state-legal space as the object of research because the most important system elements of the modern state function in the conditions of transformational changes in socio-economic, political-legal and socio-cultural plan. The aim of the work is the necessity to actualise a new concept of education in general, and higher education in particular, since in the modern world the institution of higher education is considered to be the most important factor in the development of human resources, in view of the fact that the factor of education in the future will be considered almost the main criterion for sustainable and successful development of any state. The methodological context of this paper is based on a combination of classical general scientific methodology and special techniques and means of scientific knowledge: comparative-legal, historical-legal, and concrete-sociological study of the problems posed in the paper.