In:
Philosophical Literary Journal Logos, The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Vol. 28, No. 6 ( 2019-1), p. 105-130
Abstract:
The article describes the system of mass higher education in terms of political economy. The author discusses how the social and economic results of the education system depend on the principles of its organization. In identifying the economic effect of education, the author emphasizes that in certain circumstances certificates of education may function in the market as fictitious capital, increasing the economic opportunities of certificate holders without any basis in an actual increase in training or professionalism. The analogy with fictitious capital is methodologically justified because the certificate itself brings about an increment in money received although it creates no new value. The social consequence of the formalization of education is the falsification of its cultural content and significance. This formalization of education and the decline in the role of education and knowledge in society may make the cultural capital to which education contributes fictitious as well because it is verified only by a certificate of qualification in place of an actual advanced level of education.
The author describes the process of formalization of education as a bureaucratic attack on the autonomy of the academic environment. To overcome the formalization of education and to repel this bureaucratic attack on it, it is necessary to establish the proper conditions for academic and personal development while enlisting society at large in formulating standards and specific criteria for the development of education. The author sees the processes taking place in education as signs of a crisis of institutionalization as a principle for regulating human activity. This crisis is manifested today not only by numerous disruptions in the operation of the educational system but also in the crisis concerning its social significance, and more broadly in questioning the social significance of knowledge.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
2499-9628
,
0869-5377
DOI:
10.22394/0869-5377-2018-6
DOI:
10.22394/0869-5377-2018-6-105-128
Language:
Russian
Publisher:
The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Publication Date:
2019
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2826495-2
SSG:
7,39
SSG:
5,1
