Outlines of a New Anthropological Education Project

The article investigates the problem of the philosophical and anthropological foundations of the new educational policy with an aim of determining the key foundations and prerequisites for the emergence of a new anthropological education project. The article attempts to deduce the image of a person that may lie behind the current discussions about the results and content of education that take place in the emerging educational policy. The central concept of the article is the anthropological project, which is considered as the basis of educational paradigms and formations. The connection between the anthropological project of education and didactics, which plays a key role in the practical implementation of the philosophical and anthropological foundations of a particular educational system, is investigated. The prerequisites for the formation of the modern anthropological project, which contain ideas about the “person of the future” to the idea of further development of the theory and philosophy of education, are considered. The basic research methods were: a content-genetic analysis of the main categories and principles of open education didactics; explication of its systemforming principles in accordance with the category “anthropological project of education”. In the course of the study, anthropological projects were analyzed as a context for the development of education. Two approaches were identified to describe the relationship between education and anthropological projects, which can be considered as the foundations of educational activity. The dual structure of anthropological projects is considered, which is expressed in the fact that the practical implementation of idealized images of a person can lead to the formation of ideologies focused on achieving opposite results laid down in these images. Based on the materials reflecting the essence of the discussion in modern educational policy, the possible prerequisites for a new anthropological project were analyzed. As a result of the study, the prerequisites for a new anthropological project were identified, which are associated with the study of a person's ability to live and act in the future, while the future is interpreted in different contexts. In the first case, the future is viewed as a problem of uncertainty, in which a person needs to be able to effectively navigate; in the second as a planetary crisis, in which a person needs to learn to survive by changing their attitude to the world (or even worlds) around them and revising the status of their own subjectivity.

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