Domestic Education as a System and an Object of Management
The article proposes communicative conceptualization of the notion of "education system". The turn of modern theoretical sociology toward the system-communicative theory (N. Luhmann), in the author's opinion, marked not only a waiver of structural and functional approaches to the analysis and management of social systems, but also a refrain from the relapses of their criticism built on the notion of "ideal norm". The author also makes an attempt to implement the logic of the development of operationally closed recursively evolving systems as a tool for analyzing some actions of the regulator on reforming Russian higher education, which were directly transferred to higher education institutions within the last 10-15 years.