Problems of Fundamentalization of Higher Social Education

This study focuses on the fundamentalization of higher education in general and social education in particular. Over the last years it has become clear that the new time and growing complexity of the system of economic, social and cultural relations require the training of a new type specialists with a broad, universal basic background and fundamental knowledge. The fundamentalization of education includes focusing of education on the study of the basic laws of nature and society, as well as the nature and purpose of mankind. Such approach shall make it possible for social workers to find and make responsible decisions in uncertain, critical and stressful situations, when faced with new complicated natural and social phenomena.