EDUCATION AS A SERVICE (MYTHOLOGICAL ASPECT)

Abstract

Summary. The purpose of the study. The article deals with the peculiarities of the phenomenon of education in the context of the transition from the age of Postmodernism to the age of Global Capitalism and analyzes possible prospects for its implementation. Methodology. The research was carried out on the basis of the dialectical method, as a result of which the influence of historical circumstances on the change in the form, content, main goals and results of education as a social value and its transformation into a service is shown. Scientific novelty. The idea is argued that at the current stage of society's being, there is a transition from a cognitive to an informative way of implementing social relations and human development, as a result of which education ceases to be a value and rapidly transforms into a service. It is substantiated the substantial connection of information and service; the latter one acts as a method of its creation, distribution, assimilation and use. The main features of the service nature of education are determined: the displacement of the subject way of communication by the subjectless one, professional qualification by competence, creativity by creativity as a set of acquired skills. Comprehensive training programs are replaced by a set of unrelated interchangeable special courses. All of this entails the transformation of the educational process into an endless and meaningfully incomplete and non-independent one. Conclusion. The displacement or complete replacement of the specified semantic connections in the context of the educational process means its transition to the mythological basis of being, which is a manifestation and consequence of the gradual archaization of the spiritual life of society. The latter means the gradual strengthening of the impossibility of posing and solving fundamental problems and the spread of thinking focused exclusively on the empirical sphere. Education ceases to be a public good, leaving behind the function of abstract capital without any moral enrichment.