Intellectual potential of department in social modernization of education

Abstract

The article considers methods of using the intellectual potential of the department in the social modernization of education. The Kazakhstani education is aimed at implementing the Plan of the Nation “100 concrete steps to implement 5 institutional reforms”. Today in the Kazakh National University. al-Farabi all the chairs have rich traditions, experience and scientific authority. The scientific search includes not only teachers, but also the majority of students, all undergraduates and doctoral students. Therefore, we, in fact, are in modern terminology research university. We live in conditions of turbulence, that is, under the conditions of acceleration of historical time, therefore science develops rapidly – every 3 years. And this requires giving encyclopaedic knowledge to young people, based on understanding, so that it is ready to learn new specialties and to abandon the crossword, based on cramming. For this purpose the department realizes the program “knowledge”, “understanding”, “competence”, “analysis-synthesis”, “evaluation”, “critical thinking”. Thanks to this, a single, organically interconnected, continuous system of education has been created. Based on the president’s concept of modernizing humanitarian education, a modern model of a sociologist has been developed. In the process of transition to a new program, the sociological education of Kazakhstan is undergoing various processes – institutionalization, academicization, professionalization and scien- tification, which are closely interrelated. Academization and professionalization are often understood as two sides of the process of institutionalization. Using modern methodology, as well as synergy, modeling, system and comparative historical methods, applying questionnaires, interviews, observation and analysis of documents, world sociology tries to open up the secrets of the surrounding world. Sociologists have already discovered the laws of group pressure and leadership, the emergence of interethnic conflicts, civil wars and revolutions, found mechanisms for the formation of crowds and mass behavior, fashion changes, population migration, fluctuations in supply and demand, changing political regimes, the principles of integration and differentiation of sciences. Now the department is orienting its staff to research more complex issues than before: searching for ways out of the crisis, problems of achieving a global goal – real independence of the republic, strengthening of civil society, building a democratic, social and legal state, social modernization, ensuring the formation of a full-fledged national market on a new technological, structural, institutional basis.

Key words: methods, intellectual potential, social modernization, education, academicization