Professional inflation and education: social and futuristic notes

Abstract

Philosophy of balance; New economy; Empty world; NIBEP; New enlightenment; Worldview; Responsibility for ongoing crises, etc. Today these constructs increasingly fill a wide variety of studies. The purpose of this article is to address them more specifically. How does education today relate to that abstraction that is called a profession? What is a profession? Does today's education provide the required professionalization as a vital process? Each of these questions today requires a separate analysis, but if we summarize the possible answers in one article, it is quite clear that only the interdisciplinary approach with its synergetic effect is possible here as a methodological one. Today's reality clearly indicates that new technologies are developing faster than the education system, and the pace of human capital adaptation is lagging behind. The change in the need for professions and skills leads to the fact that one third of employees will have to be retrained by 2022. Does the concept of «profession» retain its ontological status today? What is necessary for maintaining the status of the profession as a subjective value and a means of achieving an individual good? What does (or does not) the modern education system – the main processor for the reproduction of professions – do for this? In the future, the «man-robot» relationship will change the modern «world of professions» from the current ratio of «71–29» to «58–42» and a lot of professions will be unclaimed. Discussing these problems, the authors come to the conclusion that if modern education develops towards narrow specialization, the prospects for the human capital reproduction will be dead-end. It is no coincidence that the main motives of the latest report of the Club of Rome were «Come on! Capitalism, Chort – termism, Population and Destruction of the Planet», together with the harsh criticism of capitalism, the rejection of materialism and reductionism, the call for a new Enlightenment, the recitation of a holistic worldview and planetary civilization. The main thesis, shared by us completely and unconditionally, is that for the future development, «Education for the Economy» and «Education for the Person» come down to the negation of the absolutism of the principle «Education for Employment». New education is a worldview based on the whole «spectrum of conflicting and complementary perspectives», on integrity and complementarity, on adaptation to cultural diversity. That is, education itself turns into a profession, the main status sign of which is the reproduction of the subject (individual) by himself and for himself, thereby determining his social and biological evolution.