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University and Two Meanings of Responsibility: Objectification of Social Effects of Educational Institutions (by the example of a survey among graduates of an Orthodox university)

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Ivan Zabayev - Candidate of Science, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy of Religion and Religious Aspects of Culture, St. Tikhon's Orthodox University of Humanities. Address: 23B, Novokuznetskaya str., Moscow, 115184, Russian Federation. E-mail: zabaev-iv@yandex.ruIvan Pavlyutkin - Candidate of Science, Associate Professor, Department of Economic Sociology, National Research University - Higher School of Economics. Address: 3, Kochnovsky proezd, Moscow, 125319, Russian Federation. E-mail: euhominid@gmail.comWe approach higher education as a source of not only private good but also public one. An analysis of oeuvres was aimed at differentiating between formal and substantive meanings of the term university responsibility. Substantive meaning of responsibility appeals to criteria beyond knowledge, appreciates the crucial importance of education effects in various aspects of life, and derives from the very fact of interdependence between the university and the society. We believe that importance of university as an institution forming the society may specifically be put into question in Russia, where the high level of education coexists weirdly with the high level of social hardship. An online questionnaire was completed by more than one third of graduates of a Russian confessional (Orthodox) university residing in more than 100 localities of Russia, former Soviet Republics, and other foreign countries. The data on graduates' shared values and attitudes obtained in the survey was compared to results of national and international surveys on family issues, civic engagement, values, employment, social capital, and consumption practices. Based on this comparison, we suggest that philosophies and attitudes of Orthodox university graduates have many common points that set them aside from the other population of Russia: they are committed to family and civic values, have a strong attitude of service, and participate in social activities to help people in need. Standardized indices of social capital in the sample of Orthodox university graduates are three times higher than those in the national sample of all higher education graduates. We propose to raise a critical discussion of the role of religion in higher education and to dwell specifically on issues of validity of theology as a scientific discipline, effects of bringing religion to high school, and the problem of confessional universities.DOI: 10.17323/1814-9545-2014-2-202-221

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  • Ivan Zabayev & Ivan Pavlyutkin, 2014. "University and Two Meanings of Responsibility: Objectification of Social Effects of Educational Institutions (by the example of a survey among graduates of an Orthodox university)," Voprosy obrazovaniya / Educational Studies Moscow, National Research University Higher School of Economics, issue 2, pages 202-221.
    • Handle: RePEc:nos:voprob:2014:i:2:p:202-221
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