Contextual Approach as an Integrator of Innovations in Education

Abstract

The article discusses the contextual approach developed in the scientific school of A. A. Verbitsky. This approach is presented as a meta-approach that allows to integrate various innovations in education. Educational innovations are a necessity today and for the foreseeable future. However, innovative approaches, concepts, technologies and techniques can enter among themselves the contradiction that complicates the process of their introduction to the theory and practice of education. As a result, there is a need in a general approach, the role of which and applies the contextual approach. The context is interpreted in it as a mental semantic mechanism for the generation of meaning and sense of the perceived phenomena in their correlation with each other as a psychic content (representations). The different contexts of the educational process represent different, complementary ways of understanding the one reality. In the event of a conflict between different private approaches are removed by identifying the boundaries of their applicability, that is, those contexts in which each of these approaches is most appropriate. Contextual approach integrates all educational approaches and innovation into a single synergistic system.