History of psychology in Siberia: the problem of scientific reflection

Studying the history of a science allows to understand its present and to imagine its future. The Siberian psychologists bring creative contribution to the process of development of psychological knowledge. Now there is no analysis of development of Siberian psychology. There exist a few works on regional comparisons of development of psychological science and practice. Similar analysis of formation and development of psychological knowledge in various regions and centres of science of Siberia will allow both understanding today's state of the science as compared with its past and seeing the prospects of the strategic lines of development of domestic psychology. Research of the history of formation and dynamics of psychological knowledge in Siberia makes an important direction of researches and serves as a key to understanding of historical preconditions, historical logic of development of the psychological science and practice in Siberian region. Describing the prospects and development tendencies allows conducting special researches of creative cooperation of scientists-psychologists of the region, analysing outstanding persons in this aspect. In the article the necessity of studying the formation of Siberian psychology according to the tendencies of development of domestic and foreign psychology is proved. The example of history of psychological science, education and practice in Tomsk is given. The chronological approach to the analysis of the history of scientific knowledge helped to draw a conclusion on close connection of scientific ideas with social dynamics of the society. At the same time, the possibility and necessity of the new approach is shown to the analysis of development of the psychological science in the region through the tendencies of development of the world and domestic psychological science. In this connection the main organizational research problem is selection and structurization of the material in compliance with these tendencies. We carried out preliminary selection of materials on the history and current state of the psychological science and practice in Siberian region for the subsequent transspective analysis. Much in the problem of Siberian psychology development remains unresearched, since we lack information about its historical way to recreate a full picture of its development. But the preliminary study of the history of formation of Siberian psychology showed that today's positive dynamics works for the prospect of its uniqueness. In whole, in the course of development Siberian psychology accumulated such quantitative changes (scales of works, volumes of resources, tools), that qualitative analysis is required to classify knowledge in the form of a scientific reflection.

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