Integration as Didactic Prerequisite for Creating Situations of Axiological Choice to be Made by Students

Abstract

Schooling helps to take on the image of “Self” by integrating the meanings and narratives of our culture, identifying oneself with its values, including social ones. Integration is viewed by the authors as a process bringing multifarious meanings together, into a single interface between the meanings of various subjects and objects of the pedagogical process. It is proved that such approach encourages students to make a certain axiological choice, the first manifestation of meaning. Selected elements of pedagogical process - problems, problems-antinomies, events, concrete facts, personalization - combine various contents, make them into a single whole, creating prerequisites for axiological choices. It was found that the greater is the meaningful potential of integrated knowledge in the choice situations, the higher is the personal relevance of the problem for the student; events, specific facts and “acting out the characters” should affect the emotional and aesthetic sphere of the student. Due to this the axiological choice will be based on inner emotion, experiencing which is an indispensable prerequisite of personality development