GERM Postulates and Lessons in the Schools and Universities

Abstract

although the Global Education Reform Movement has been adopted as a guide-line to follow in modern Russia, it was not given enough thought in the universities com-munity. Meanwhile, a transformation of the Russian educational space – including pri-mary, secondary, high schools and higher education institutions – follows the worldwide trends of challenges. It is noteworthy that in 2018, the GERM Hypothesis has marked its thirtieth anniversary. Until this point in time, it went through a global experimental testing stage. Many countries have gained much experience from adopting the GERM hypothesis. The time has arrived to critically re-evaluate the lessons drawn from the inductive learn-ing. For this purpose, one must return to the fundamentals in order to understand where and what the critical factors of success or failure are laying and to pass again through the spiral of perfection.