The authors suggest a non conventional technique of teaching political science. The idea is to use fi ction in the study of basic topics of political science. The main purpose of this technique is to develop the creative thinking in students, to teach them to form their own defi nitions of...

Lidiya Okolskaya, Ph.D. in Sociology, senior researcher in the Sector for Research in Personality, Sociology Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, first prize winner in Pinsky Awards Education Research Competition (2011). Email: okoli@yandex.ru Address: Bld. 5, 24/35 Krzhizhanovskogo St.,...

Cultural differences between the business community and the academia, the two major spheres of modern public life, are under scrutiny in this paper. In particular, specifics of their transformations under conditions of knowledge economy are addressed. A number of expert focused interviews have...

Oleg Gazman (1936-1996), Ped.D., Associate Member of the Russian Academy of Education, Head of Laboratory at Center for Pedagogical Innovation, Moscow, Russian Federation. Address: 8 Pogodinskaya St., Moscow, 119121, Russian Federation.The article analyzes different interpretations of the notion...

The problem of value neutrality of science is considered on the basis of works by Leo Tolstoy and Max Weber. In the first part of the article, the statements on the value neutrality of scientific knowledge and university teaching by Weber and Tolstoy are made explicit and analyzed in a...

The article presents the general principles underlying the authors program for studying in detail the political socialization of high school students. The program had been launched in 1996, and the results were published in a monograph entitled High School Student in the World of Politics...

This article attempts to introduce a new paradigm of education modernization. The education system should become a key socialization institution, and it must play a leading role in forming the values, norms, attitudes, and behavioral stereotypes of the Russian population. The author shows the...

Alexander Sidorkin - Ph.D., Director, Department of Educational Programmes, Institute of Education, National Research University - Higher School of Economics. Address: 13, Milyutinsky lane, Moscow, 101000, Russian Federation. E-mail: asidorkin@hse.ruUpbringing is regarded as a purposeful...

Ivan Zabayev - Candidate of Science, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy of Religion and Religious Aspects of Culture, St. Tikhons Orthodox University of Humanities. Address: 23B, Novokuznetskaya str., Moscow, 115184, Russian Federation. E-mail: zabaev-iv@yandex.ruIvan Pavlyutkin -...