EDUCATION IN THE HUMANITIES IN THE CONTEXT OF INNOVATIVE DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

The article describes various aspects of education in the humanities as related to the complicated situation in the Russian educational space. Education is considered as "the making, the formation of man”; and the goal of liberal education is defined as "the basics of the inclusion into the system of social relations”. Revealing the importance of education in the humanities, the author raises the issues related to the reform of the entire education system and, in particular, in vocational education and indicates that “direct focusing on a specific narrow profession instead of forming socially active, free-thinking and capable of self-realization personality leads to the low-level results”. Further arguments are related to the role of liberal education in shaping the culture of the specialist. Insufficient efforts in this direction, the author believes, are “the result of distortions of the education strategy”, on one hand, and, on the other, the result of “the state’s withdrawal from participation in the educational process”. The author perceives two ways out of this situation: 1) the humanities and social sciences should be introduced by the state in a directive fashion, and 2) the continuity of education should be ensured.