Samokształtowanie człowieka jako wartość poznawcza pedagogiki ogólnej
The Self-Education Process as a Cognitive Value of General Pedagogy

Summary/Abstract: The question of self-formation of a human being, that is the formation of the self, is being debated today in the fields of different academic disciplines, including philosophy, pedagogy and psychology. Depending on the approach a given discipline adopts, different aspects of this process are highlighted, including the cognitive, social, moral and cultural one. Similar concepts are as follows: self-realization, autocreation, autorealization, autoformation, work on oneself and auto-education, or the so-called “self-becoming”. Self-formation is a process of development of the self, of one’s whole personality and it is a creative process of cognition and realization of personal and moral values, being a conscious work on oneself in all possible forms and ranges. Whereas the process of self-training, which means self-acquisition of knowledge and abilities, is sometimes emphasized in modern teaching programs and educational reports, the question of self-formation of one’s personality, working on oneself, the process of becoming in the axiological aspect – the question of self education – is pushed aside. The formation process of an axiological structure in a person does not have an end – there is no moment in one’s biography in which one’s personality would be fully defined. There is a need for further research on different factors of the self-education process and its relation to the general pedagogy.

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