Market Mechanisms as a Social Deadlock for Russian Education
https://doi.org/10.31992/0869-3617-2019-28-5-63-72
Abstract
InRussia, the preference of the educational policy for market paths has been being formed for nearly thirty years. The mechanisms, consequences and prospects of so called marketization have not been yet studied. The article considers the marketization of education, including higher education, as a scientific and social problem. Basing on foreign and domestic sources, the author proves that the marketization of education is generated by neo-liberal attitude of the financial and economic elites seeking to reduce state budget expenditures in the social sphere and keep up the disintegration of society and to secure their future domination. The state, the bureaucratic apparatus of the education system, educators’ and researchers’ communities do not take up the problem of education marketization and its consequences. The marketization strategy along with its derivatives is taken in society as an axiom, without special studies and research. Due to this education is being dysfunctional, it experiences a protracted institutional crisis, social tensions and losses, whilst the search of ways out of the neoliberal deadlock is postponed up to uncertain future.
Supporting agencies: The study was supported by the grant of the Russian Science Foundation (agreement 18-18-00047).
About the Author
A. M. Osipov
Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, St. Petersburg
Russian Federation
Dr. Sci. (Sociology), Prof.
Russian Federation
Dr. Sci. (Sociology), Prof.
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