Theoretical Image of Education: Network Reflection

DOI

10.2991/hssnpp-19.2019.113How to use a DOI?

Keywords

image, theoretical model, construct, visual design

Abstract

The author carries out a discourse about the potential application of the concept of network scientific approach, its conceptual and hardware tools in the context of the theorization of the social reality phenomenon - "education". Theoretical understanding of the phenomenon of education in view of its transdisciplinarity, and poly-contextuality has no single theoretical interpretation. This suggests that there is an urgent need to carry out the construction of theoretical ideas about social phenomena in a single concept of "theoretical image", giving it conceptual and logical characteristics and taking as one of the potentially possible representation format. The starting point of the discourse carried out in this work is the fact that heuristic possibilities of classical methodologies (normative, interpretative) are insufficient in the conditions of changing social reality. The author postulates that the 20th century marked the emergence of innovations in social reality and as a consequence of modifications in traditional social structures and social institutions. The author refers to the network theme by changing the intentions of education as an element of social reality. It is hypothesized that the epistemological potential of the network approach as a strategic optics of the study of social reality phenomena will allow identifying and understanding the remaining outside the research field essential characteristics, properties of social phenomenon, in particular its manifest and latent sides. The discourse contains a mention of the directions formed in the context of the network paradigm and found their application in the scientific research field of social and humanitarian studies.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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