Baksansky, O. E., Kucher, E. N. Psychological Grounds of Education: from the Discourse to the Narrative

Abstract: Review: what do we expect from school today? Is the school’s only goal to reproduce existing culture? Does the school need to ‘make up’ loyal citizens out of children? The authors analyzed changes in methodological and psychological basis of modern education, in particular, its transition from a formally logic disciplinary structure to a narrative interpreting model. According to the authors, education cannot be viewed only as a tool for transferring knowledge. It is not enough just to establish a certain teaching method and to implement it at school. Education has a more global task which is to adjust culture to man’s needs and to prepare a man for realizing his social functions. This is the only context in which the true nature of education can be understood

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