Technical Education in the Context of Sustainable Development

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of reforming Russian education. By analogy with the post-non-classical paradigm of science, it is proposed to build an educational strategy on the principles of complexity, openness, nonlinearity, human dimension. The importance of holistic thinking in the implementation of this strategy, especially for engineering education, is substantiated. The advantage of contextual learning in this process is shown. It is proposed to consider sustainable and coordinated development of various complex structures in the world as a context.