Журнал «Психология образования в поликультурном пространстве»

CULTURAL SELF-DETERMINATION AS METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEM OF MODERN EDUCATION

Author: Bulankina N.E.

The author of the article makes most of the Compact principle, which gives new ground for the balance in education, like it takes place in culture itself, and believes that the Choice & Open positive knowledge Principles are of great importance for Effective Cultural Self-realization. Self-determination in culture is interpreted as cultural individual self-determination, a limiting display of national consciousness, social identity, social and professional choice of spheres for application of personal vital forces. It is one of the productive characteristics ofhumanistic approach to polylingual educational environment for it is directly connected with preservation and reproduction of the poly-lingual culture in the process of mastering its expressive means via educational socially significant humanitarian activities. The polylingual educational environment, with a language personality in its center, actualizes the culturological sense of human knowledge, which can be developed via educational processes, and takes part in creating innovative-oriented professionals, who show their worth for language personalities in the process of harmonious polyphonic interaction within the language group. Therefore, we regard the development of a language personality in the context of the polylingual educational environment as one of the perspectives for psychological and social adaptation, and as a pledge for successful existence of each person in the changed global situation. Acting as the major component of the polylingual educational environment, one can realize the necessity to construct the educational process according to the principles of humanism. As a result of polyphony (the ambiguity and the polysemy of each element/language) of educational environment, various expressive means of individual comprehension for different essence of education are of primary importance. Individual polylingual culture, being characterized with its structural properties, connectedness and wholeness, becomes the basis for personal comprehension. The polylingual culture of the social subject is actualized through the individual thesaurus, intelligence and status. Along with these features one can reveal in the personal language his/her productivity, via his messages. Thus, if you offer your students a wide range of activities intended for students of all levels, one has to create the safest place to hide information. Why? The author of the article believes it is partly that we as teachers always try to ‘cover new ground’ and partly that our students do not want or do not know how to go about it. That is why it’s important to bear in mind the following realia - passive activities of our students in class do not mean accumulation of information in their mind.