Zmiana w edukacji jako wartość instrumentalna
Change in Education as an Instrumental Value

Summary/Abstract: RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: The present publication focuses on the issue of change in education and aims to present a systematic discussion of criteria for its analysis from the point of view of value of the education itself. THE RESEARCH PROBLEM AND METHODS: The paper discusses, with an in abstracto approach, the multi-faceted and multidimensional nature of the problem of change in education. The author focuses here on the methods of phenomenological analysis and existential analysis as modes of articulating pedagogical thought. THE PROCESS OF ARGUMENTATION: Differentiating between the issue of value of change in education and the problem of value of the education itself is the basic foundation for formulating the criteria for discussing change in education. This step allows to define the desired elements and characteristics of such change which allow to conclude that a given change is pro-educational (positive). RESEARCH RESULTS: Clarification of the criteria for analysing change allows to identify the dimensions which are crucial both for determining the constructive effects of change in education, as well as for confirming the autotelian value of education. CONCLUSIONS, INNOVATIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS: Change in education as an instrumental value should guarantee achievement of the inter-subjectively obvious common good in the field of educational praxis. The criteria formulated in the paper make up a set of tools useful for a multi-faceted and multidimensional analysis of the planned and implemented changes in education.

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