DILEMMA OF OBJECTIVES OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN PHILOSOPHICAL MEASUREMENT

Abstract

The reform of education is the subject of numerous discussions. However, scientifically based proposals have been developed only on a few issues. Subject of the analysis is the purposes of higher education that change their orientation in modern conditions. Article purpose is to reveal the reasons of contradictory character of the modern higher education purposes. Methodology and methods. The appeal to philosophical judgment of the purposes of modern higher education is considered on the basis of national education systems comparison with using of comparative and phenomenological approach; methods of the structural analysis and a philosophical reflection are used. Results. The author reveals common problems in statement of the purposes of modern higher education designed at the different levels. The purposes are designed without multilevel system activity of higher education institutes, in conditions of quickly extending and fragmented knowledge which is giving rise to new concepts, meanings and statements, but complicating statement of accurately definite purposes. The analysis of this problem leads to conclusion it is need to combine the global purposes of the higher education and the operational purposes of the concrete organizations entering this system. Practical implication. Results of research can be applied for development courses on philosophy of education and for management in the sphere of education.

Keywords

• высшее образование
• философия образования
• цели высшего образования