Personal Self-identity As an Aspect of Educational Space and Time

Abstract

The article implements a philosophical approach to the problems of education. The author sees the main problem in the fact that stereotyping and monologiza­tion of human behavior, thinking and communication in many ways are a conse­quence of the education system being monologue: most importantly, the content of education is viewed as a pedagogically adapted social experience transmitted to a student without taking into account his personal, cultural and historical background and other characteristics. The article debates that such a knowledge-transfer, subject-object nature of education leads to the expansion of the exter­nally specified content of education as the capacity of educational space. Most arguably, it does not take into account the student himself in education, his mis­sion, purpose, peculiarities, it creates preconditions for the loss of a person’s identity as an internal space which the author regards as the interaction of inter­nal forms, words and actions. Overloading the content of education at all its lev­els leads pedagogical science to the problems of pedagogical space and time. In his research, the author shows that the time for the student to create his own metasubject learning results differs from the time it takes for the student to ac­quire integrated, interdisciplinary “knowledge”. Based on the concept of “inter­nal forms” of a word (A.A. Potebnya, G.G. Shpet, P.A. Florensky, N.S. Avtono­mova), the author of the article considers dialogical communication as the nature of the student’s inner space which determines his self-identity. The author’s re­search shows that a heuristic dialogue, in which the questioning dominant in learning new things belongs to the student, and not the teacher, is the most im­portant tool for the formation and development of his inner space – the space of self-change, a condition for the conjugation of the “external” objective (histori­cal) time with the “internal” time – ahistorical, meta-time.