Perspectives of developing the idea of agency of a pupil in the humanitarian educational paradigm

Abstract

The article analyzes approaches to implementing the agent nature of pupil within the humanitarian educational paradigm. The author points out the relations between humanist and humanitarian education paradigms in views on the agency of the pupil’s personality in the educational process. At the same time it is stated that a humanitarian approach is focused on a new vision of educational activity – a humanitarian way of organizing the process of cognition. The author highlights the need for a new perspective on educational activities based on the principle of humanitarianism which ensures shaping pupils’ personal world view based on a shift in the approach to knowledge acquisition. It is specified that in such conditions agency is manifested in working out one’s own meanings, shaping one’s own world view, motivational and value regulations based on the perception of information that is acquired as personal and meaningful one