Scientific Approaches to Postmodern Spirituality: Theoretical and Methodological Aspects

Abstract

Today spirituality in the educational process as an independent object of formation and study is practically absent. About this concept is only a unsystematic mention within secondary topics. However, without certainty regarding this concept and the concentration of the educational process on it, it is impossible to solve the key tasks of educational activity. Without the ideas of spirituality and spiritual values formed in the personality, it is impossible to talk about the presence of the spiritual foundations of development and life. The culture of spirituality in the modern world is quite similar to that in the 20th century, because today society provokes a spontaneous acceleration of the pace of changes in life, and therefore the perception of the surrounding world and events in it also changes: knowledge and values become unstable ephemeral. Post-industrial society focuses on material successes, ignoring utilitarian values, and sceptical attitude towards reality often develops into nihilism. The world in which we live gradually begins to resemble chaos, in which there are no moral guidelines and main human values, therefore, losing the real foundation in the outside world, a person often turns to the inner world, to spirituality, in order to hide from "world" problems and difficulties.

Education as a Way of Human Existence in a Postmodern Society

“…The education of broad strata, according to the philosopher, in contrast to the masses until now, was carried out only with the help of humanitarian knowledge, while other ways were possible for individual individuals. Anyone who studied Greek and Latin, read ancient authors, philosophers and historians, then mastered mathematics, got acquainted with the Bible and a few major poets of his nation, then enriched himself in, which is much in the achievements of the nation, and in its boundless mobility and openness gives a strong retention and makes everything else available (Antonenko et al, 2020).…”

Постсекулярні Виміри Освітніх Трансформацій

“…Сам факт, що ми задаємося питанням про те, вступаємо ми в епоху всесвітнього постсекулярного суспільства, свідчить про те, що ми переступили поріг, що ми більше не можемо просто, без будь-якої рефлексії залишатися секуляристами [2].…”