How to Avoid Predicaments in Human Improvement. Review of the Russian Edition of the Book: Cohen D. K. Teaching and Its Predicaments
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- Gasan Gusejnov
- Source
- Вопросы образования, Iss 3, Pp 242-249 (2017)
- Subject
- educational trajectories
education reforms
teaching
teaching as a profession
teacher-student relationships
professional expertise
job burnout
Education (General)
L7-991
- Language
- English
Russian
- ISSN
- 1814-9545
2412-4354
An answer is sought for the question as to why the United States remain the most attractive place in the world to get tertiary education despite its permanent secondary school crisis, based on what David Cohen reveals about U.S. education as well as what he would probably prefer not to disclose but which becomes obvious from his book. The U.S. tertiary education system makes good use of the best outcomes of secondary education from all over the world to develop the most advanced forms of higher education. Their education system rests on a self-organizing social environment, which has been great at adjusting to changing global trends. The attitude towards education as a constantly renewing process of criticizing the foundations and traditions of teaching is a key element of the worldwide influence of American universities. The article is focused on describing the mechanisms of adjusting the social environment through the development of outstripping forms of educational institutions and projects.