The Causes of Crisis in Education and Perspectives of its Transition to the Innovative Model of Development

The new perspectives of the Russian education in the context of the goals and objectives of the post-crisis and long-term development of the Russian Federation (the strategy - 2020) are analyzed in the article. The contradictions of the modern educational model are reviewed, the innovative ways and means of a balanced development of the Russian national education system and its active participation in the international education initiatives are considered and proved in terms of their prospects.

Russian education, innovations, innovative education, creativity, informatization of education, functional illiteracy, qualities of education, self-directed study, continued mass education, andragogy