From education to its theoretical image: a constructivist discourse

V. V. Vikhman

doi:10.20913/2618-7515-2021-2-4

From education to its theoretical image: a constructivist discourse

V. V. Vikhman

https://doi.org/10.20913/2618-7515-2021-2-4

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Abstract

The article aims to reflect on the applicability of the constructivist paradigm to the education study at the level of its theorizations and idealizations. It suggests that socio-philosophical reflection is carried out not over real education, but over its theoretical available context, that is, theoretical perceptions and judgements about it accumulated in the scientific interdisciplinary space. The author assumes that reliance on the basic principles and tools of the constructivist paradigm in the context of the education study as a social phenomenon will allow reaching a new level of its understanding. The fact is fixed that introducing an ideal-typical author’s design to the study - the «theoretical image of the education phenomenon», will reveal the main properties, connections, relations and patterns inherent in real education, as well as put forward prognostic hypotheses and assumptions of its development. The ideal-typical design of «theoretical image of the education phenomenon» includes the main attribution characteristics of real education, leaving outside its minor and non-essential signs. The paper assumes that shifting the research focus of knowledge from real education to the social and philosophical reflection of his theorizations, as well as applying the basic principles of the constructivist concept – make it possible to reach the generalizing research and prognostic concept of his understanding.

Keywords

еducation, theoretical image of the phenomenon of education, social constructivism, design, available theoretical context,

About the Author

V. V. Vikhman

Novosibirsk State Technical University
Russian Federation

Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor; Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy (Faculty of Humanities Education), Head of the Academic Department

20, Karl Marx Ave., Novosibirsk, 630073

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For citation: Vikhman V.V. From education to its theoretical image: a constructivist discourse. Professional education in the modern world. 2021;11(2):33-42. https://doi.org/10.20913/2618-7515-2021-2-4

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