The influence of poetic and musical rhythm on the perception and comprehension of an educational text by an Ancient Greek student

Abstract

The article presents the results of the historical and psychological reconstruction of educational reading in an Ancient Greek school. The purpose of this reconstruction was to identify the psychological mechanisms of influence of the musical and poetic rhythm on the student's personality, to determine the pedagogic potential of the poetic text as a means of raising, to reveal the psychological mechanisms of the activity of the text as a subject of educational reading. The educational effects of the rhythm of the mythological and poetic text in the context of the formation of the socio-cultural identity of an Ancient Greek student are revealed. The psychological mechanisms of the participation of poetic and musical rhythm in the organisation of the practice of reading in an Ancient Greek school are described. It is noted that the poetic rhythm of the text suggests a special way of participating in the teacher's educational reading. Based on the reconstruction, it is concluded that the rhythmically intense educational mythological and poetic text has the ability to evoke an emotional response in the student, influence his unconscious attitudes, and impose emotional and semantic dominants of perception and understanding of what is written. The most important task of modern education is found in the formation of student's sense of rhythm in the process of educational reading. It is noted that this sense of rhythm in a modern school can be formed by referring to educational texts and texts used in youth culture.