RUSSIAN EDUCATION IS THE TERRITORY OF A CONTROLLED DISASTER: KEY TERMS AND PROBLEM STATEMENT
This article is devoted to the analysis of problems and threats in the Russian education system in a complex aspect. Based on the trends of educational reforms and their real impact on the subjects, social practices and communications of the educational process in its various links and levels, the authors conclude that the crisis and destructive phenomena in the Russian education system are deterministic and interrelated. In their totality, these phenomena can be qualified as a latent unfolding catastrophe in the most important social subsystem of society. The prerequisites of which are quite specific management actions over the past three decades. If the chosen vector of reform is maintained, destructive consequences are inevitable on the scale of Russian society as a whole. This article is the first part of a more extensive work.