The Current State and Problems of the Upbringing Process Today: A Roundtable

This article presents a roundtable discussion on the current state and problems of the upbringing process. The participants were professors from different universities in Russia. In his opening remarks, Zh.T. Toshchenko, editor in chief of Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniia and a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, emphasized the timely urgency and the scientific and practical importance of the topic of the discussion and called on the participants to focus on the following issues: the specific character of upbringing work under current conditions; the need to reconcile the requirements of civil society and the tasks of upbringing; university freedoms and students' participation in self-government; and the civic consciousness of the community of students, its current state, reserves, and potential for development. Here, the participants share their views regarding the topic.