Philosophic problems of correlation between professional education and education in general

Abstract

Modern epoch is called the epoch of constant changes connected first of all with development of science and its applications which have lead to quality changes in all social life of mankind. Changes taking place in civilization are associated in mass mind with culture of postmodern which is opposite to traditional culture of modern. Contradictory character of relationship between two cultures affects in a bad way the education system which nowadays must look for reasonable correlation between education responsible for ideology and forming of a person and professional education. The author points out that main purpose of modern education is - through upbringing - to form comprehensively developed person without which professional education can not be realized. In the article philosophic analysis of the problems of correlation of education and professional education is made, in terms of trends taking place in the modern world. This investigation is based on dialectics and methodology of self-organization theory. Contradictory character of integration processes in education in the epoch of globalization is shown. The author proposes the idea of two-level continuous education as theoretical solution to this problem. In this concept contradictory requirements of conservative culture and mobile civilization necessary for forming of modern person are put together in harmonious way.© IDOSI Publications, 2013.