ENVIRONMENT AS A SCIENTIFIC AND PEDAGOGICAL PHENOMENON
Journal Title: Problems of Education in the 21st Century - Year 2008, Vol 3, Issue 1
Abstract
It is observed different interpretations to understanding and use of definition "environment" by various sciences at studying mutual relations of the person with The environment. The environment is more often considered as system of external subjects, the phenomena and the processes influencing the person. In pedagogics the environment is understood as circumstance in relation to a studied subject and used concerning social-cultural a component. The understanding of an environment as the multicomponent system consisting of several subsystems and cooperating among themselves, meets seldom. The person is considered only as the factor of influence on environment, instead of as, a component making a modern inhabitancy of alive essences, as the accomplice of processes of transformation and development of an environment. In spite of the fact that, the person as the biological kind was allocated from an environment, however he during all life, still, there is in the "shipped" condition in the environment " a field - a place ", being in interaction with all making this environment. During interaction the image of environment in consciousness of the person is created. This image also determines his relation} to her, style of behaviour in the present and the near future. As a whole set of natural and social components of environment forms that name « the vital environment » or « the direct vital environment ».
Authors and Affiliations
Melnik, EL
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