Subjects of Decision-Making in the Contemporary Educational Process
It is stated in the paper that the educational system can be considered as an institution which enables to establish stability in the relationship between an individual and the society. Such system of stability, in its turn, appears to be dependent on those organizational forms and levels of decision-making which determine the directions of the development of education. Thus, the article sets the goal to identify the specifics of the subjects involved in the educational process and the decision-making process. Three groups of such subjects are analyzed in the paper: subjects of the individual decision-making in the educational system (those who are studying); subjects forming an enquiry to the educational system or certain educational institution for new knowledge and competences (state and business) and subjects related to the organizational processes in the educational system (faculty and administration of the higher education institutions). The distinction between the individual and collective subjects of decision-making is made in the article. Finally, the activity of the stakeholders who influence decision-making processes in all three groups of subjects of the educational process is analyzed in the paper.