EDUCATIONAL POLICIES FOR PROVIDING THE QUALITY OF LIFE
Abstract
Quality of life is an essential parameter to consider when society and its members are concerned. Education can become crucial in assessing social progress and quality of life. Thus, quality of life, as an indicator of any country’s educational system and its efficiency, becomes an instrument for implementing educational policies both for social and personal development. Further, quality of life, a person’s satisfaction with his or her life activity, is determined mostly by the state of the educational system and by conditions created for a person’s development and realization of talents. Our research question is “what is considered to be qualitative, material or morality? Culture-centric or universal?”
This article aims to address the problem using systemic, structural, functional, and cultural approaches. Systemic approach helps to reveal the integral character of the studied phenomenon—quality of life. The approach, based on cultural study, helps to ground the culture-centric educational principle as a mechanism to provide adequate quality of life in contemporary society. Functional and structural approach helps to investigate the function of education and its role in the society. The change from technogenic civilization toward quality-of-life civilization requires a new perspective, which is capable of not only an adaptation to existing reality, but also of an ability to improve upon it. People who can achieve this become representatives of a new social group—meritocracy. Culture-centric educational principle is one of the ways to build up a new educational paradigm in order to prepare young people for a contemporary society.
References
Aron, R. (1992). Etapy razvitiya sotsiologicheskoy mysli [Main Currents in Sociological Thought]. Moscow: Progress.
Aron, R. (1966). Peace and war. A theory of international relations, 373-403.
Bauman, Z. (2001). Identity in the Globalizing World. Social Anthropology, 9(2), 121-129.
Beck, U. (2000). Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity (V. Sedelnikov, & N. Fyodorova, Trans.). Moscow: Progress-Tradition. (Original work published 1992).
Bell, D. (2008). The Coming of Post-Industrial Society. New York: Basic Books. (Original work published 1973).
Bernstein, P. L. (1996). Against The Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Bestuzhev-Lada, I. V. (1993). Prognoznoye obosnovaniye sotsial'nykh novovvedeniy [Prognostic Study of Social Innovations]. Moscow: Nauka
Brzezinski, Z. (2007). The grand chessboard. Basic Books.
Castells, M. (2000). Informatsionnaya epokha: Ekonomika, obshchestvo, kul’tura [The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture]. Moscow: GU VSHE.
Drucker, P. F. (1999). Post-Capitalist Society. In V. L. Inozemtsev (Ed.), New Post-Industrial Wave in the West: Anthology (pp. 67-101). Moscow: Academia.
Galbraith, J. K., & Crook, A. (1958). The affluent society, 534. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Gerjuoy, H. (1970). In A. Toffler (Ed.), Future Shock (pp. 414). New York: A Bantam Book, Random House.
Giddens, A. (2013). The third way: The renewal of social democracy. John Wiley & Sons.
Kuo, E. C., & Chew, H. E. (2009). Beyond ethnocentrism in communication theory: Towards a culture-centric approach. Asian Journal of Communication, 19(4), 422-437.
Lareau, A., & Conley, D. (2008). Social Class: How Does It Work? Russell Sage Foundation.
Machlup, F. (1962). The production and distribution of knowledge in the United States, 278. Princeton university press.
Martin, W. J. (1996). Global information society. Ashgate Publishing Company.
Masanori, H. (1993). Aspects of labor market adjustments in Japan. Journal of Labor Economics, 11(1), 136-61.
Masuda, Y. (1980). The information society as post-industrial society. World Future Society.
Meshavkina, N.A. (2006). Vliyaniye otnosheniya k risku na prinyatiye resheniy [The Influence of the Attitude Towards Risk On the Making Decisions]. Vestnik Bashkirskogo Universiteta, (4), 179-180.
Naisbitt, J. (1993). Global Paradox: The Bigger the World Econmy, the More Powerful Its Smallest Players. William Morrow & Co., Inc..
Parsons, T. (2013). Social System. Routledge.
Pigou, A. C. (1985). The Economics of Welfare. Moscow.
Popov, S. I. (1977). Problema “kachestva zhizni” v sovremennoy ideologicheskoy bor'be [Quality of Life Issue in Modern Ideological Struggle]. Moscow: Politizdat.
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (2010). Improving Health and Social Cohesion through Education. OECD.
Russian Federation Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation (2012). Federal'nyye gosudarstvennyye obrazovatel'nyye standarty [Federal State Educational Standard of Education]. Retrieved from http://fgosvo.ru/fgosvpo/7/6/1
Samuelson, P. A. (1972). Economics in a golden age: a personal memoir. The Twentieth Century Sciences: Studies in the Biography of Ideas. New York: W. W. Norton.
Toffler, A. (1990). Future Shock. Random House LLC.
Copyright information
- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 - CC BY 3.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
info@iseic.cz, www.iseic.cz, ojs.journals.cz
