Higher education in the face of XXI century challenges

The article examines “order of the day” of higher education modernization processes at the context of two major trends of social transformations at the beginning of ХХІ century – globalization processes and information society establishing ones. It is shown that as an answer to these tendencies hig...

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Main Author: Svyrydenko Denys
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Society of Philosophy and Cosmology 2014-03-01
Series:Философия и космология
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Online Access:http://www.ispcjournal.org/journals/2014/svyrydenko.pdf
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Summary:The article examines “order of the day” of higher education modernization processes at the context of two major trends of social transformations at the beginning of ХХІ century – globalization processes and information society establishing ones. It is shown that as an answer to these tendencies higher education sphere is modernized by form in terms of organizational changes (actualization of distance learning ideas, virtual university model; organizational changes to correspond market realities etc.) as well as by content (changes of pedagogical practices towards formation of personality of new type, transformation of educational content towards formation tolerant and multicultural world-view of students etc.). The author stands on position that there is a need of deep theoretical surveys used methods of philosophy of education to substantiate modernization processes. Mentioned surveys have potential to find the ways of qualitative incorporation of higher education sphere into complicate social dynamics of present days.
ISSN:2307-3705
2307-3705