PERSONAL SELF-DEVELOPMENT, TRAINING AND EDUCATION: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL DIMENSION

Abstract

The article is devoted to the psychological inquiry of personal self-development and its connection with education and training. The focus has been made on the terminological aspect of the problem. It has been concluded that personal self-development is the process of person’s activity in the social and cultural environment which includes three main phases: the phase of adaptation; the phase of individualization; the phase of integration. There are four main positions regarding the relationship between training and education in the context of personality self-development: training and education are indivisible processes; education is carried out in an extracurricular form; education is completely outside the training, but forms an axiological unity with it; personal education is mainly carried out by communities and groups that are not related to the field of training. There are three main approaches to the relationship between development and training: complete denial of any connection between development and training; identification of these two processes; the interpretation of development as a dual process, including training and maturation (in this case, development is recognized as a broader concept than training). Personal self-development is impossible without education and training.

Key words: Personality, Personal Self-development, Mind, Training, Education, Culture.