Lifelong learning: basics of management innovations

The paper offers a possible solution for identifying methodological basis of designing management innovations in the context of lifelong learning in Russia. It is obvious that lifelong learning is going through the institutionalization and this process requires adequate management on all levels of education. However, methodological approaches to be used as a basis for all administrative decisions are yet to be determined. Moreover, so far this issue has not become as widely discussed in the education community. The purpose of this study is to synthesize current methodological and philosophical ideas concerning the dialectics of animate and inanimate, linear and nonlinear in the education systems and to unite the results arising from attempts to create the conditions for formal institutionalization of lifelong learning within current legal regulations. The study describes organizational theories applied for establishing educational organizations that develop in the context of lifelong learning institutionalization and renders on the ideological basics of effective school as described by P...