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"Philosophy of Education"

2012 year, number 3

AN EPISTEMIC INTERPRETATION OF THE ROLE OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE MODERNIZATION PROCESS

N. A. Zhernova, E. E. Zhernov
Keywords: knowledge, epistemology, ontological and teleological approaches, modernization, education, innovations, survey
Pages: 19-27

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of identification of the role of knowledge and its types in the ongoing modernization of Russian education, science and economy. Utilizing the opposite (ontological and teleological) approaches of epistemology, the authors present the results of a survey of the university students of different academic years and the forms of education, which reveal the inconsistency of the students notions about modernization. The authors formulate some proposals of how to organize theinterdisciplinary space of education and the scientific research of modernization.