scholarly journals Open-mindedness in the terminological system of the modern philosophy of education: interpretations and problems

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 99-110
Author(s):  
Alexander Krikunov ◽  

This article considers the main aspects of the discussion about the concept of open-mindedness in modern English-speaking philosophy of education. It emphasizes the importance of the topic for national pedagogy, which is currently in composite dialogue with world traditions of understanding the educational process. Open-mindedness is considered as an element of an extensive terminological system. The need to clarify the meaning of the concept is associated with its role in determining the criteria for the distinction between education and indoctrination. The article presents the most significant definitions of open-mindedness and indicates that the external obviousness of the concept contrasts with the difficulty of finding its consistent definition. It finds that the key feature of the experience in interpreting open-mindedness is the increase in educational requirements. It summarizes the main objections raised to various aspects of a theoretical understanding of the concept. The author considers it logical to abandon attempts to implement the ideal of absolute rational open-mindedness in teaching. In general, the discourse on open-mindedness shows the impossibility of avoiding discussion about the development of a subject in any attempt to determine the meaning of education. The article presents the research prospects in rethinking the role of rationality in the process of making a man and the world.

Author(s):  
L. Lytvynchuk ◽  
I. Rashkovska

The article reveals the actual question of the role of the ideal as a model for teenage inheritance in the process of studying at a university. The multiplicity of problems associated with the formation of the idea of the "ideal" implies the interdependence of various aspects of this process, a holistic approach to the problem. This study used a systematic approach to identify the leading ideals of persons of adolescence as a way of seeing the world.


Author(s):  
Agustin Basave

Education, an action, is a process, a development of the imperfect human being intentionally directed at achieving the ideal of human plenitude in the best possible manner. This is a description of the educational process based on the human being who travels toward plenitude, a point of arrival; the human being who achieves his or her own perfection in the best possible manner; and a method: intentional guidance towards plenitude in the harmonious formation of humanity. It is not enough to say what education is or what it is like. It is necessary to clarify what education is for. The harmonious development of essential, integral and vocational abilities makes the student more perfect and causes his or her cosmic and social circumstance to be more perfect. In this integral philosophy of education, I offer a new "Paideia." It is necessary to seek the student's point of balance between the sciences of empirical verification and humanistic duties. Otherwise, we will march toward the disintegration of the human being, to the anti-knowledge of a very powerful technocracy. Integral personal and community education is education which promotes the person in a changing society susceptible to progress. That student perfectibility which is anxious to satisfy demands can only be fulfilled with love. The contemporary world has not rehearsed on a large scale an education for love. If we do not found education on love, the world will not be inhabited by humans.


2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (11) ◽  
pp. 20-24
Author(s):  
Ponomareva L.I. ◽  
Gan N.Yu. ◽  
Obukhova K.A.

In the presented study, the authors raise the question of the need to include in the educational process of a preschool institution to familiarize children with some philosophical categories. The educational system in which the child is included, starting from preschool childhood, provides him with the opportunity to gradually and continuously enter the knowledge of the world around him. It is in preschool childhood that the child is exposed to various relationships, values of culture and health, diverse patterns in the field of different knowledge. This contributes to a broader interaction of the preschooler with the world around him, which, in turn, ensures the assimilation not of disparate ideas about objects and phenomena, but their natural integration and interpenetration, which means understanding the integrity of the picture of the world. The authors prove the idea that the assimilation of philosophical categories by children contributes to the understanding of the structure of the surrounding world. The analysis of research is presented, proving that children's fiction in an understandable and accessible language, life examples and vivid images is able to explain to children the laws of the functioning of nature and society, as well as to reveal the world of human relations and feelings. Fiction surrounds the child from the first years of his life. It is she who contributes to the development of thinking and imagination, enriches the sensory world, provides role models and teaches you to find a way out in different situations. Philosophical categories such as "love and friendship", "beautiful and ugly", "good and evil" are represented in children's literature very widely, and the efficiency of mastering philosophical categories depends on the skill of an adult in conveying the content of a work, on correctly placed accents.


2019 ◽  
pp. 38-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duncan Bell

This chapter will explore the similarities and differences between late nineteenth-century debates on the British settler Empire and more recent visions of the Anglosphere. It suggests that the idea of the Anglosphere has deep roots in British political thought. In particular, it traces the debates over both imperial federation and Anglo-American union from the late nineteenth century onwards into the post-Brexit world. I examine three recurrent issues that have shaped arguments about the unity and potential of the ‘English-speaking peoples’: the ideal constitutional structure of the community; the economic model that it should adopt; and the role of the United States within it. I conclude by arguing that the legacy of settler colonialism, and an idealised vision of the ‘English-speaking peoples’, played a pivotal role in shaping Tory Euroscepticism from the late 1990s onwards, furnishing an influential group of politicians and public intellectuals, from Thatcher and Robert Conquest to Boris Johnson and Andrew Roberts, with an alternative non-European vision of Britain’s place in the world.


John Rawls ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 53-60

What is the relation between political theory and political practice? In what ways can political philosophy help people to address real injustices in the world? John Rawls argues that an important role of political philosophy is to identify the ideal standards of justice at which we should aim in political practice. Other philosophers challenge this approach, arguing that Rawls’s idealizations are not useful as a guide for action or, worse, that they are an impediment to addressing actual injustices in the world. They argue, instead, that political philosophy ought to be focused on theorizing about the elimination of existing injustice. Still others argue that principles of justice should be identified without any constraint concerning the possibility of implementation or regulation in the real world at all....


Worldview ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 17 (7) ◽  
pp. 34-39
Author(s):  
Clyde A. Holbrook

The role of higher education is crucial in a world that seems torn apart by cultural, economic, political and social differences, and yet is, at the same time, ever more closely drawn together by technology, travel, social and economic needs. Higher education offers no panacea for the disunity of this complex and confusing world. It should, however, contribute to a kind of understanding that spans the differences among the people of the world, or at least those within one country. In this connection liberal arts education is today in jeopardy, unsure of its competence to serve the ideal of humanitas that at one time was conceded to be both the stable ground and the ever elusive goal of higher education.


Author(s):  
S.V. Murafa ◽  
A.А. Pavlova ◽  
E.V. Trifonova

The article reveals the psychological and pedagogical conditions of the educational process aimed at the development of children's abilities and support of their giftedness. The emphasis is made on the definition of the features of interaction between teachers and children. The work is based on the specifics of the theoretical understanding of abilities, creativity and giftedness, developed in the framework of national scientific psychology. The authors consider situations in which the effect on the child become difficult-mediated and suggest the upbringing through self-upbringing and growth of his giftedness, his own creative initiative and interest for the cognition process. The authors emphasize the role of the teacher in the context of early childhood education in the development of children's giftedness.


2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-53
Author(s):  
P. Seyitkazi ◽  
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A. Ahmetova ◽  

The scientific article analyzes the importance and relevance of media education. The author provides teachers with the pedagogical foundations of teaching media education in the field of information literacy in the field of vocational education. The scientific article takes into account the fact that the development of information technology in the world contributes to the latest trends in the development of pedagogical personnel and pedagogical technologies in the development of media education in the educational process, assuming that the younger generation will be crucial for information. In the article, the author draws on scientific conclusions, citing examples of the importance and necessity of media education. Considering that information technologies are developing in society, the ways of teacher education are analyzed in a scientific article. The development of science and technology is associated with the need for widespread use and application of the latest technological methods and equipment in the direction of vocational guidance and the role of media education in this direction.


Neofilolog ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 227-247
Author(s):  
Ewa Papierz-Łapsa

In an era of dynamically changing socio-economics and technological progress, many aspects of school education are being transformed. Teachers are required to be professional in the form of a demand for increasingly higher professional qualifications and competences, but are also required to fulfil specific social roles. These new determinants of the functioning of education create difficulties in the construction of the teacher's identity because the changes which are being introduced disturb professional stability and cause fears about the future. The challenge is to try to answer universal questions about the professional identity of the teacher, the ability to combine an exceptional sense of service, vocation and mission. This situation affects teachers of German and other foreign languages (FL). The aim of this paper is to show how teachers of German as a FL perceive the changing school and how they assess the educational process that they co-create. Through biographical interviews, analyzed within the framework of Rubacha’s social role model (2000), an attempt is made to answer the question of how the social role of German teachers is changing as a result of the educational reform initiated in 2017 and what dilemmas are being caused by the changing role of the teacher. Statements from participants of the study will be presented that illustratethe disorder of stabilization of the profession, which results in a critical attitude to the changing situation in school, a disturbed attitude to the world, culture and other people. Impairment of the professional stabilization of German teachers is viewed in the context of the concept of their social role.


Author(s):  
Małgorzata Molęda-Zdziech

The aim of the study is to analyse the role of media in shaping of the modern man identity. I narrow my approach to the postmodern approaches of A. Giddens, M. Castells and M. Maffesoli. Those authors combine in their work changes taking place in the world of media and changes on the level of the individual identity. Based on the work of M. Maffesoli, I reconstruct the ideal type of postmodern individual identity – homo creator. Then, I describe the mediality as postmodern value and a component of postmodern identity. The study presents the results of a 2014 TNS Connected Life research report prepared on a sample of 55,000 Internet users from around the World. The results illustrate the habits in the use of traditional and new media.


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