Home – Home – Jornals – "Philosophy of Education" 2016 number 1

In the perspective of post-nonclassical scientific paradigm, there arises in the methodology of modern social-humanitarian knowledge the desire to include into the explanatory schemes the category of the human being, which makes it possible to analyze such interdisciplinary phenomena as subjectness, individuality, personality, «spiritual Self», consciousness, conscience, morality. Explanation of the nature of these definitions requires philosophical reflection, reinterpretation of methodological approaches in modern social-humanitarian knowledge in general. The article discusses the relationship of fractal resonance and quantum approaches that could serve as an explanatory principle of phenomena related to acquiring the social and cultural experience in the educational process. Describing the characteristics of the person as a multidimensional phenomenon, the authors present him/her as an informational self-similar structure that permeates the physical body and is a source of non-linear fractals, interacting with the world and itself according to the resonance principle. Based on this conceptual position, they first formulate the essential characteristics of the fractal-resonance and quantum approaches in relation to the field of social-humanitarian knowledge. Turning to the methodology of the above approaches, the authors present and describe a system of principles on which their implementation in modern education is based. The study summarizes and systematizes the experience of domestic and foreign scientists, which allows creating a holistic view of the methodological possibilities of fractal-resonance and quantum approaches in education. A special attention can be paid to the formulated and theoretically substantiated by the authors system of principles of fractal-resonance and quantum approaches, which allows translating the sociocultural experience in the educational process, and which is based on the laws of quantum mechanics and the theory of fractals. An apparent merit of this article is conceptualization of the ideas of quantum psychology and fractal pedagogy and the rationale for their use in the field of modern education. In the comparative analysis, the author suggests that the «reality» of the classical world includes a number of alternative worlds, which bear the traits of self-similarity, whereas most of them have fully fractal, scale-invariant forms. In the context of principles of the fractal-resonance approach, it is justified that the reality and consciousness are a single whole, where the consciousness can be seen as the relationship between the fractal structures of internal and external worlds of the human being, whereas the quantum approach makes it possible to fully identify how the mental, the ideal are related to the material, the physical, the bodily.