EDUCATION AS A SERVICE: SOCIO-PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS

Abstract

The paper pays attention to complicated problems occurred due to the modern reforms in education and declares they have much in common. This similarity is systematic and takes place due to changes in society. Education movement is one of the components of the similarity mentioned above. It reveals as a social common good to the individual one. This tendency was described by the authors in the article published in the previous volume of journal “Professional education in the modern world”. The authors attempt to consider one of the main ways of this “movement” which is transformation of education from an individual good to a service. The authors consider education as educational service and it stipulates the statement that reproductive education is based on economic factor and not the cultural one. Educational space is considered as educational service market and educational subjects (state, civil society, family and individual) are reviewed as subjects of economic relations. The publication adheres to the opinion that this process is like modernization of “factory” education interaction and not its exact new model. That is why the process leads to destructions in sense and values of educational space belonging to individual and family and to the state educational policy inappropriate for requirements of VI technological mode.