Home – Home – Jornals – "Philosophy of Education" 2008 number 2

The essence of education, as a part of upbringing of the sensible cultural-historical person, cannot be fully realized within the traditional context of cognitive-oriented school. There is described in the article a complex of mutually coordinated and mutually complementary methodologies including various approaches of cultural studies, axiology, anthropology, psychology, and hermeneutics. Using this basis, a sense-oriented educational model can be built up. There are shown by the author the possibilities of an absolutely novel interpretation of knowledge assimilation as a fully cultural, personal, and development oriented process, using the resources of the "Understanding" category. The author suggests quite a novel approach to determination of different values, goals, principles, contents, ways, and methods of the educational process as an alternative to the cognitive-oriented methods. This new way leads to formation of sense and values of the person and ensures formation of the man-of-culture.