Key guidelines of educational policy in the context of building a new model of higher education
The author examines the main aspects of the modern university activity related to the transformation of the educational system and current socio-cultural conditions of society. Possible strategies for organizing the educational process in a modern Russian university were formulated based on the integration of existing developments in higher education management. These strategies create conditions for responding to the educational needs of young people, taking into account the value orientations...
Kant and “Seasickness” of Modernity
On the eve of the tercentenary of Kant’s birth, just as it was a hundred years ago, Kantianism is simultaneously on the receiving end of the blows of history and attacks by rival philosophical parties, both progressivist and reactionary. The radical wings of both parties perceive modernity as a depressing, nauseating period which must be broken with by moving toward the past or toward the future. One of the most original and profound diagnoses of this attitude was offered by Hans Jonas, who discerned...
The Kantian Concept of Human Dignity Today
Although Kant was born three hundred years ago, his practical philosophy is still relevant and helpful for understanding difficult and crucial issues of today. One example is the strange transformation the concept of human dignity has undergone in post-Soviet Russia — in everyday language, in ideological doctrines, and in legal documents. While in ordinary life dignity is increasingly reduced to access to material benefits, in its legal sense — above all in the 1993 Constitution of the Russian Federation...
Universal digital competences: higher education personalisation for digital economy
The article is devoted to the analysis of the compliance of Russian educational standards with the modern requirements of the data-driven digital economy. Approaches to the formation of students’ universal digital competencies are examined. The main objective of the study is to substantiate the structure of universal digital competencies adapted to the conditions of distance learning and suitable for building personalized educational trajectories, on the one hand, and corresponding to the current...