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Conservative universities, vocational education and an overwhelmed university program

Conservative universities, vocational education and an overwhelmed university program

1. No need to strive for, that 100% school graduates went to universities - let them go to college, otherwise the balance in the labor market will be disturbed. So, anyway, believes the head of the Ministry of Education and Science Valery Falkov. The minister also recognizes, that our education is too conservative:https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/4956888

Universities according to their degree of conservatism, perhaps, few are inferior. But at the same time, we are now undergoing colossal changes in life.. Everything changes, and education does it very reluctantly. A good university today should perform three functions: effectively transfer the accumulated knowledge to the student, produce fundamentally new knowledge and, ideally, turn knowledge into technology, product or business. It is impossible to transfer knowledge to another generation, without looking for new. Otherwise, you will inevitably fall behind, there will be a gap. No wonder they say: graduates of some universities come to work, and production is already completely different. This is precisely because, that teachers transmit only that knowledge, accumulated in previous years. They don't have new knowledge., so prepare a student, as they say, to the past war. Teachers, professors, must, figuratively speaking, take a student by the hand and lead him to the cutting edge of science. Show Biology Laboratories, in chemistry, mathematics, in other disciplines. Sounds quite logical, but you will be surprised, how many universities count, that they should only pass on knowledge from one generation to the next. And that's the point. A modern university needs to be an active participant in economic relations - to create new products and technologies in cooperation with enterprises, contribute to the economy. We work with business, with real sector enterprises. And it's important to them, that universities have development programs, so that universities plan their work not for six months, but for five to ten years. Set yourself research goals, new projects were implemented - this is fundamentally important for business. He is much more willing to cooperate with such universities.

2. Reader fly_dream shares his thoughts and experiences on different approaches to education:https://olegmakarenko.ru/2235734.html?thread=822056278#t822056278

here, by the way, surprisingly, when I was an exchange student overseas, there subjectively breathed somehow differently. Even tired, sleepy, completely depressed (for example, we had a practice session in the studio at midnight), I'm in class, and in the middle of the first lesson - all the negativity disappeared. It was cool and interesting. But I repeat - the difference is, what are they preparing you for, that you will continue the industry, chosen, that you will be her representative, you will defend her honor, develop and carry on your shoulders to a brighter future. And we have - to that, so that you formally comply with the standards approved by the Ministry of Defense (which also change from year to year., at our university, half of the teachers cried about, that earlier there were more hours on their subject). About, did you understand something or not, will you work in your specialty or not, whether something from your knowledge is useful to you or not - there is no question at all, this is outside the tasks and competence of universities. As for the school, the <…>, we, Unfortunately, no main (or in my time, late 80s, early 90s was not, now I don't know). There is no work with students on the topic - to help understand and realize, what do they want from life, and how to make money on it. I repeat (already posted here before) of all my schoolmates, only one knew for sure, who will become, when it grows up, and stubbornly went to his goal. The rest is either dripping on the brains of parents on the topic: "you must choose a prestigious profession", and a man under pressure went to some law school, where did you sit your pants, and studied for triples, and grew up in, what is office plankton. Abundance, a family, life from Friday to Sunday and posts on VKontakte "Monday is a hard day." Or even worse - a person drove computer toys, kissing girls, went to disk drives and entries. Then suddenly, final exams, and they tell him: "And now, dude, you have to choose your life's work. You have two hours. And he's like that: "BUT, place? In terms of?"And okay, even now the Internet is, at least you can google something. There were times when this was not ... I knew one person, which the, as I, loved aviation, dreamed of becoming a pilot and ... got stuck to enter the MAI (well, like an aviation institute), simply because he had nowhere to find out about that, that pilots are not taught there. Entered some faculty of rocket engines, studied for several years with the feeling, that his life itself is somewhere nai ... tra-la-la, and continued to swell, and went down to the very bottom (there, true, at that time, the contingent also contributed).But the most important thing is to somehow start to change everything., you have to start with, so that our bright heads in high ministries break their adherence to the “great god of hypertrophied formalism” (scourge of modernity) and stopped working "for indicators". But how to do it - I have no idea. We had an example of a person in the air party, who rose from a pilot to a big boss, and rushed to introduce all the most advanced, what was abroad. And he spent eight years fighting "with dinosaurs" as he called them., who didn't need a damn thing, except to sit quietly until retirement and not bathe. Then he burned out and went down the post, just to fly.

3. A Russian teacher with extensive experience in tutoring claims, that the main thing in his business is “to find contact with reality”. Course Design Methods, different methods of teaching - it's all secondary. The main thing is to clearly understand, what level are the students at?, whether they respond well to their training efforts and methods, is the process successful?. Thoughtless repetition of training rituals, no feedback, results in a senseless waste of time. The teacher also writes about the “uselessness” and “degeneration of pedagogy”, about detachment from reality in Russian pedagogical universities, and in general in the education system. I'll quote a couple of paragraphs:https://www.facebook.com/groups/Nauchobrazovanie/posts/1575193319492993/

The training course is incredibly overloaded with secondary material, and the "core of the course", which you need to understand and know perfectly - not even framed and highlighted (the consequence is usually, that students study the whole year or semester a lot of things, and after this course they do not know even the most elementary basics, which can be learned in one to two weeks). <…>If we compare even the most ordinary Russian universities with the top universities in the world, it's easy to spot, that in Russian universities the curriculum is 2-3 times more. understandably, it's such a monstrous detachment from reality, that it is even difficult to adequately imagine it, without being deeply shocked by what is happening. And speaking of pedagogy, then the biggest gap of this kind is precisely in pedagogical universities - they study a huge number of subjects in an absolutely formal way ("learned by heart, I passed, I forgot, did not understand anything in any topic"), Moreover, such a catastrophic situation in pedagogical universities has always been in the USSR ...

A question to graduates of pedagogical universities and others involved - is this really the case?, as mister tutor writes? Does the pedagogical program justify the effort to master it??

Oleg Makarenko

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