Titova E. V. Socio-kinetics as methodological resource. LIFELONG EDUCATION: The 21st Century.
2013. № 2. DOI: 10.15393/j5.art.2013.2082


Issue 2

Lifelong learning in the modern world: the research and design methodology

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Socio-kinetics as methodological resource

Titova E V
D.Sc., professor of the Pedagogy Department at Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia.
(St.Petersburg)
ev-titova@yandex.ru
Keywords:
socio-kinetics
lifelong learning
children movement as part of social movement
children social unions
social potentials of children movement
educational potentials of children movement
Abstract: The article is devoted to the problem of revealing new methodological resources of lifelong learning theory and practice. The goal of the article is to familiarize readers with developing research area, named socio-kinetics. Socio-kinetics studies the social phenomena of social movements, and most of all children movement as one of the types of social movements. The social potentials of children movement such as social-pedagogical, social-economical, and socio-cultural are discussed. In the article it is noted that educational potentials of children movement has not been enough studied yet. The place of social unions in the system of lifelong learning as elements of formal, non-formal, and informal education is specified. Brief characteristics of conceptual image of socio-kinetics, the origin and evolution of which has been the result of coordinated activities of informal scientific community of children movement researchers are presented. The article deals with the object, subject, main categories, main trends, and structure of socio-kinetics. The article gives a general outline of the possibilities of methodological interrelation of socio-kinetics and the theory of lifelong learning in the field of research of civil education, social competency development, and social integration.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15393/j5.art.2013.2082