Ethically oriented A.S. Makarenko’s educational system

Abstract

The question of values in education must draw attention to itself, considering that ethical profile of the world we live in is no more based on solid moral foundations which we can consider meaningful and compulsory for everyone, taking into account the “hyper-liberalization” of basic social institutions, including ethical ones, considering that such a “ethical anarchy” considering that that latter may erase differences linked to values between age, sex, special groups and students’ activists. Along with it, we have to pay attention to globalization of world society having as result chaotic cross– cultural clashes and awkward consequences since migrants and other groups of people coming from abroad (for instance workers) create their own communities whose values can intersect and, at a certain extent, interfere with predominant values of the country they are living in, a factor that does not play a secondary role, in our mind. Hence, it must be stressed that abovementioned phenomena are really challenging for “traditional” educational and pedagogical systems in force of that fact that school is the keeper of social values, as E. Durkheim argued and, at the same time, she must play close attention to (sub)cultural elements, and consequently, ethical foundations of different social and ethnic groups.