The Trends and Prospectives of Professional Economic Education in Russia

Abstract

The system of education, as well as many other institutional systems in Russia, has being under continuous reformations and transformations during the last 25 years. At the same time, the economic education has faced perhaps the most dramatic large-scale changes. The value changes of the whole Russian society that started in the early 1990s have formed a number of serious challenges for economic education, such as a need to change the ideological paradigm of the Soviet period, an enormous interest in economic education on different social levels, since economics and economic knowledge started to be considered as a key to wealth and success in the early 1990s, etc. The authors of this chapter discuss the major trends of the development of the modern economic education in Russia on the levels of high school, university, academia and professional society. As a special case, statistical data characterizing the situation with economic education in Novosibirsk region of Russia are provided and discussed. The authors also hypothesize about the future of economic education in Russia and the world.