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By Artemy Magun, European University, St. Petersburg Reduced Russian Version The essential paradox to all education consists of a tension between the autonomous moment of thought that inevitably makes learning authoritarian and non-democratic and the moment of dialogue with the free thought of a student who demands that the university be an open and ultra-democratic [...]
[More...]By Alexander Bikbov, Center for Modern Philosophy and Social Sciences, Moscow State University[1] The Russian Ministry of Education entered the European Bologna reform club in 2003, five years after its foundation, having jumped over the constitutive phase. Such a delay accompanied by the government’s explicit hesitations and high resistance among university administrators, made Russian universities [...]
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Артемий Магун, Европейского университета (Санкт-Петербург) Expanded English Version Университет как социальная структура существует со времен создания в средние века двух противоположных сил, которые, собственно, и определяют его сложную, двусмысленную роль. Во-первых, университет с самого начала автономен от общества, в котором он находится. Вначале он выделился как сфера влияния церкви и Римского папы в трансформирующемся средневековом [...]
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