Social risks of educational practices simulation in Russia

The study deals with the reasons to apply the concept of simulation in relation to educational practices in Russia. The concepts and categories of the issue under review are defined. It is necessary to study the educational simulacra in the context of the Russian educational environment as a whole beyond the higher education system. The concepts of social risks and educational simulations are explained; their impact on higher education institutions activities is revealed. It is argued that the risk of educational simulacra can cause undesirable deviations from the expected education system in Russia in the future. The effective modernization of the education system is substituted for simulating educational practices and its simulacra. The social consequences of simulacra of knowledge are threatening and characterized by the lack of basic skills in learning and degradation of students and Russian society as a whole.