PERSONALITY SELF-DEVELOPMENT AS A SUBJECT OF PEDAGOGICS AND PSYCHOLOGY
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The article represents a historical retrospective of the idea of human self-development in pedagogics. The authors stress the inclusion of self-development into the contemporary educational process. Attention is drawn to a controversy of understanding the following categories by the contemporary psychology: “personality development”, “personality self-development”, “personal growth”. The article describes two tendencies, representing the process of personality self-development in different ways: self-development as a spontaneous process of aiming at personal growth and development (framed in a humanistic paradigm) and development as a deliberate and purposeful self-regulation and self-modification (a subjective approach). The authors affirm that self-development is not induced exclusively by freedom of will and sense of a human and does not represent only the result of a purposeful education. It is stated that pedagogical practice and psychological science should be directed to searching for such pedagogical conditions and researching such factors that make both approaches productive. The solution of the problem of personality self-development belongs to the scope of the integrated contemporary psychology-pedagogical science. Refs 24.
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education, upbringing, self-education, self-development, development, personal growth, self-actualization
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