Darnios asmenybės ugdymas tvaraus vystymosi švietime ; The Development of a Harmonious Personality in the Sustainable Educational Process

Abstract

The problem of the research. The conception of the sustainable development is interpreted as non- decreasing wealth of the society based on a certain level of the technological, ecological and social activities. The social sustainability is treated as the least material and determined in comparison with the economic and ecological ones. It should be admitted that the current EU educational strategies as well as the national educational system declare the development of the essential values. Yet, the concrete and efficiently academic skills have been considered as the most prestigious ones as the quality level indicators of teachers and schools in both the national and international contexts. The strategy of the development of an open-minded, creative and responsible personality remains so far an object of the theoretical debates. That is why it is under the urgent importance to clear out the main laws of the sustainable education; to answer the question if we are able enough to rule the rapid social changes, their inertness; and if we have enough means to bring up and develop a harmonious personality. The subject of the research. The development of a harmonious personality. The aim of the research. To reveal the main abilities of the development of a harmonious personality in the sustainable educational process. The methods of the researche. The analysis of the scientific literature; the analysis of the contents of the documents; the semi- structural individual interviews and the analysis of their contents (qualitative content analysis). The outcomes of the research. The majority of the opinions of the respondents – teachers and parents – coincide: within the society there exists a manifestation of economic values, cosmopolitan culture of ratings, urgent changes of competences in the euro-identitive context. There exists some resolution of the sustainable factors in the educational institutions – the aspiration of the constant progress, the ability to adapt oneself to the changing surroundings, the testing of the demands. Yet, the aspiration of the sustainability is being fulfilled with certain difficulties – there still exists a lack of the harmony among the educational documents; a lack of the real integration among various teaching subjects. The contents of the examination programmes sadly undergo the type of the theories and politics which impoverish the students' spiritual values. The conclusions of the research. The education based on the sustainable development should be continued on the basis of learning supported with the essential values. In such a context, the concept of the harmonious personality would definitely correlate with the characteristics of the emotionally and spiritually harmonious, mature and multi-developed personality able to reveal his/ her uniqueness. The main positive factors would imply the fundamental development of the essential values supported by the school's ethical and moral codex correlating with and matching the state's educational documents, teaching programs, examination contents, teaching means, evaluation system, which would lead to the personality's maturity as the main aspiration. The basic potential reasons influencing the disability to develop a harmonious personality are connected with the educational concept based on lacking the system of the fundamental values; based on the constant and superficial educational reforms mainly reflecting the political changes; based on the decrease of the net of the educational institutions; based on the absence of the educational management competences, the culture of ranking; based on the chaotically uncontrolled negative influence of the informal surroundings; based on the absence of applying the holistic philosophy.