Educational system: variety of values, features of functioning

Given article is aimed at intrinsic specification of values and features of functioning of concept «educational system». The analysis of the given concept is directed on revealing of scientific descriptions of objects occurring in research practice and the processes ranked as educational systems. The variety of used definitions of the given concept leads frequently to mixture of values that influences and disclosing of the basic thought of the scientific text, and as a whole on its understanding. It is obvious that in the conditions of a polysemy of the use of concept specification of its value in each specific case is required. The urgency of given article is dictated by necessity of streamlining of use of concept «educational system» in practice of scientific and pedagogical researches. In article approaches existing in psihologostudent teaching to definition of the given concept in the conditions of its multipurpose use are considered, features of structural components of different educational systems are revealed