Growing child horizons: paradoxes and research prospects

Abstract

   Introduction. The issue of studying the process of growing up of a growing child in the realities of our time is of particular relevance and significance. A number of contradictions can be clearly seen (changes in the space of the child's functioning, the absence of a single track of growing up, the presence of tendencies towards the manifestation of disharmonious forms of behavior).   Materials and Methods. The purpose of our study is the theoretical substantiation and development of the conceptual foundations for growing children growing up at the distance of childhood, taking into account the specifics of different educational environments. Among the key tasks, we focused, firstly, on describing the numerous cross-section of domestic and foreign works that are closely related to childhood and adulthood against the backdrop of constantly changing sociocultural practices, and secondly, to identify specific dynamic changes in emerging educational environments. problems, focusing on the main contradictions generated by the very process of growing up; thirdly, to develop the main conceptual provisions of the psychological and pedagogical analysis of the growing child growing up in educational organizations. The article is based on sociological and psychological-pedagogical studies of the problems of growing up of growing children, carried out by modern Russian and foreign scientists. Methods used: phenomenological and problem analysis.   Results. An analysis of our studies (2015-2021), studies of domestic and foreign specialists made it possible to state the following conclusions: – We consider the maturation of a modern child in an educational environment as a cyclical process of constant change in the structure of his subjective and objective characteristics, including the formation of an image of adulthood in a child during ontogenesis, its development and implementation, as well as the reflection of the development of adulthood by children in the psychological and pedagogical space of participants in the educational process (parents, teachers). – The concept of the psychology of growing up a child is considered as a theoretical system that includes structure, typology, dynamics, research methods, a model that develops psychological technologies aimed at the favorable passage of age and educational crises by students (transition from “childhood” to “adult” state, in in which a growing person will have to independently determine its semantic content, showing behavior independent of the direct influence of circumstances).   Discussion and Conclusions. The data obtained made it possible to substantiate the importance and objectivity of the scientific positions defended in the future. In connection with the new challenges of objective reality in modern educational environments, the search for predictors of successful maturation of growing young people, this area of research seems to be quite relevant, requiring further study.