Yleissivistävä koulutus Venäjän murroksessa
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koulutus, yleissivistävä koulutus, koulutuspolitiikka, koulutusreformi, VenäjäAbstrakti
The turn of the millennium has been regarded as a turning point in education in many European countries. National education policy is to an increasing degree carried out in an internationalizing environment, and the development of education is more than ever before influenced by supranational organizations. A similar trend can also be observed in Russia, where a struggle for the direction of education has been going on for about two decades now. In this article, the guidelines of Russian education policy and the debate over their direction from the Perestroika to the present are discussed, with a special focus on the decisions concerning general education. The primary data consist of documents dealing with educational reform of general education. It has been difficult to find common ground in a situation following a period of transition in which challenges to developing education are posed, not only by national disagreements, but also issues in globalization such as economic growth, competitiveness, and supranational directives concerning education.
