EDUCATION AS THE CONDITION FOR FORMING IDENTITY IN THE SPACE OF FORMATION SOCIETY

Abstract

The article considers one of the aspects of the problem of identity – the role of education in its formation. Education here is understood not as a simple transfer of knowledge from the teacher to the student but in its extremely broad meaning – as a means of translating cultural grounds, where culture in the form of a supra-biological program of human life acts in the form of a system of values, ideological attitudes, aesthetic and ethical principles, embodying in their unity the personal meaning of the individual.

The modern information society forms a new configuration of the educational space: education no longer limits itself to the school and university, but represents a continuous process, determined by the accelerated dynamics of social development and the ever-changing conditions of social life. These factors complement the traditional forms of education with new forms, which, in their diversity, offer new opportunities for learning subjects. It is worth adding to this the fact appearance of new social subjects (sociology has already divided them into generations X, Y, Z), which are fundamentally different from each other. Particularly peculiar in this regard is the generation Z, which is characterized by a high level of pragmatism and individualism, has a desire for rapid career growth and therefore combines different educational programs in the movement to professional success. It also needs a new concept of education, which reveals itself through problematic, innovative and dialogical. As a result, such education forms a new quality of the thinking process - critical thinking as a skeptical pragmatic approach to studying not only the subject, but also to understanding its capabilities and personal attitudes. This, in turn, contributes to a more adequate comprehension of one’s own identity, which in the information society acquires a new, broader interpretation.