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"Philosophy of Education"

2019 year, number 1

AXIOLOGICAL CONTRADICTIONS BETWEEN CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS OF MODERN EDUCATION AND SOCIETY

Sophia Yu. Polyankina
Novosibirsk State Technical University, K. Marks Ave., 20, Novosibirsk, 630073
Keywords: концептуальная метафора образования, органическая метафора образования, метафора «потребительского запроса», образование как ценность, conceptual metaphor of education, organic metaphor of education, the metaphor of «consumer inquiry», education as a value

Abstract

Introduction. The purpose of the paper is to identify axiological contradictions between the conceptual organic metaphor of education and the conceptual metaphor of «consumer demand in education» (D. L. Konstantinovsky, V. S. Vakhshtayn, D. Yu. Kurakin). The conceptual metaphor is understood as a cognitive operation, which determines the style of thinking about a subject under study (J. Lakoff, M. Johnson, J. Vervaeke, J. M. Kennedy, M. McGlone, N. А. Ilyukhina, S. А. Pankratova, S. А. Khakhalova). The author of the paper proceeds from the proposition that sociocultural-interpretative conceptual metaphors (G. S. Baranov) have the potential to influence decision making process in the development of educational system reforms, to significantly determine the way they are implemented and the response of the expert community and citizens to the implemented reforms. Methodology and methods of the research. In the course of the study, a content analysis of the main regulatory document that normalizes and regulates the structure of the education system and the relationship between its subjects, the Federal Law of the Russian Federation «On Education in the Russian Federation» of December 29, 2012 o. 273-FL was used, as well as the method of metaphorical modeling to reconstruct conceptual metaphors that guided the legislators and axiological approach to identify the basic values for each of these metaphors. The results of the research. The author reveals the existence of a contradiction already at the normative level, on the material of the Federal Law «On Education in the Russian Federation». It seems that in the first place this contradiction causes damage to the upbringing potential of national education. Education, understood as a service sector, cannot perform an upbringing function along with a training one, since it cannot appeal to the Motherland, patriotism, and other cultural-specific values of the organic metaphor as the supreme ones. The main values of education from the point of view of the economy centered logic of the «consumer inquiry» metaphor are profit, payback and efficiency. Conclusion. The author comes to the conclusion that only the philosophy of education as an analytical tool can resolve the contradiction between two metaphors at the axiological level.