MЕANING GENESIS OF PERSONALITY IN THE CONTEXT OF CONTRACT PHENOMENA OF EVENT LEARNING

Abstract

The article analyzes various approaches to understanding the essence of the concept of the meaning of human life. The author pays special attention to the features of the actualization of semantic narratives in the context of the problem of professional development of students of higher education institutions. In contrast to the ethical and philosophical interpretation of the category of meaning, the author makes an attempt to present its psychological essence, which is special, since it contains the main goal of human life, the loss of which for many means a real tragedy. In particular, the emphasis is placed on the regulatory meaning of this concept, which is inherent in any developed worldview system and which reveals the essential characteristics of moral norms and values important for it and indicates their significance for the subject and his environment. The work emphasizes that the study of psychological aspects of the problem of the meaning of life is especially important for teachers and psychologists. However, neither modern school curricula nor scientific achievements in the field of teaching methods of educational subjects consider, do not highlight, and therefore do not teach young people to independently search for and find the meaning of their own lives, which is actually the main task of education. Personal-developmental (event) learning (Bondarenko O. F.), dialogical learning (Karpenko Z. S., Radchuk G. K.) should become the basis for the internal initiation of the personal and professional development of a future specialist, the formation of his value-semantic sphere. Paying tribute to these conceptual approaches, the author offers his methodological vision of the production of new meanings, which is based on the category of «contrast», which is one of the basic ones in structural psychology. It is not otherwise than according to the logic of contrast that a kind of semantic breakthrough, leap, insight, enlightenment very often occurs, as a result of which a restructuring of various subjective values and other psychological formations of the personality is carried out. It is such a contrasting environment, in our opinion, that is the most relevant factor in the genesis of meaning. Moreover, the significance of situations and goals that the subject sets for himself are determined by the chronotope «here and now». Any distant perspective, in general, significantly reduces the relevance of the goals. Significant progress in the development of this issue, in the author's opinion, can be achieved through understanding the individual and personal significance of various events and their contrasting representation at the didactic and methodological level.