Conceptual Metaphors of Education: Grounds for Social Conflict in Modern-day Russia

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200723.056How to use a DOI?

Keywords

conceptual metaphor of education, organic metaphor, market metaphor, socio-functional approach, pragmatic approach, philosophical-anthropological approach

Abstract

In modern Russian society, it is possible to trace the division into citizens who support the reforms of the education system, carried out over the past 20 years, and their ideological opponents. The purpose of the article is to identify the grounds of this social conflict and the failure of the reforms at the level of public consciousness. The author argues that the discrepancy between conceptual education metaphors guiding the vector of education policy causes a different understanding of the essence, goals and objectives of education, which leads to social conflict and dysfunction of the system. The article seeks to identify the leading conceptual metaphors of education at the regulatory level and in the citizens’ consciousness; to elucidate of the values constituting the core of each metaphor; to compare the found metaphors with the leading philosophical approaches to education; to detect other conceptual metaphors; and, finally, to suggest recommendations for resolving the conflict. The two found leading metaphors of education in modern Russia contradict at the axiological level, which leads to social conflict. The author sees a solution in adopting philosophic-anthropological approach and, according to the results of the survey, the corresponding conceptual metaphors of education as construction and educational journey.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Sophia Yur’evna Polyankina
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/07/23
TI  - Conceptual Metaphors of Education: Grounds for Social Conflict in Modern-day Russia
BT  - Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference on Philosophy of Education, Law and Science in the Era of Globalization (PELSEG 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 268
EP  - 273
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200723.056
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200723.056
ID  - Polyankina2020
ER  -