Humanistic orientation of Russian higher education as a new vector of its development

Institute of pedagogy, psychology and social problems, Isaeva Str., 12, 420039 Kazan, Russia

^* Corresponding author: rimma.prof@mail.ru

Abstract

The relevance of the problem is due to the fact that the system of education in the global educational environment turned to be dependable from the challenges of a dynamic socio-cultural reality. High-technological industry with the growing role of knowledge in all the spheres of life activity, and in the sphere of an intellectual labour implies reconsideration of higher school functions as valuable social institutions. The article reveals the potential of higher schools connected with regeneration of knowledge, and with an efficient development of professional-corporative identity of the personnel, interaction with stake-holders, and regeneration of the crisis of reliability in the educational organization. The problem of preserving humanitarian values of education in the process of training as an active subject of knowledge society continues to be principally essential. Therefore, there appeared the need to search for a relatively new socio-cultural model of the university, which will be able to preserve an idea of humanity and fundamentality of higher education. The authors’ scientific positions will be of interest to the University-teachers, the researchers, the young scientists and the post-graduate students.